cabal
noun
a small group of secret plotters, as against a government or person in authority.
caballed
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past participleof cabal.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof cabal.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
cabalnouna small group of secret plotters, as against a government or person in authority.
Example Sentences
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He caballed with the very men to whom he had hitherto been most vehemently opposed for the sole object of expelling Lord Shelburne from office.
From The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge
The King, regarding it as a blow at the power of the Crown, caballed and canvassed the Peers against it.
From The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick by Charles Bradlaugh
He intrigued in society and politics, was a practised duellist, and though he was not more than seven-or eight-and-twenty at Richelieu's death, had already caballed against him.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
The bishops and champions of different parties caballed to draw over the emperor to their side, and thus aid them in crushing their adversaries.
From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach
He laughed at the crises: he disdained this war of words, caballed against ministers, and treated passing events with levity.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
