Advertisement

Advertisement

kabbalist

or cab·a·list

[ kab-uh-list ]

noun

  1. a student of or expert in the kabbalah.
  2. a person who is well-versed or highly skilled in obscure or esoteric matters.


Discover More

Word History and Origins

Origin of kabbalist1

First recorded in 1525–35; from Medieval Latin cabbalista, equivalent to cabbala kabbalah + Latin -ista -ist
Discover More

Example Sentences

“She claims it’s some medieval palm-reading guide, but I think it’s just something she bought from a traveling kabbalist back in the old country.”

Trump, she says, “is surrounded by a Zionist environment with completely different values from Christians. It’s kabbalist. It’s Talmudic values. Not the word of God.”

Yet, her attraction for other people — specifically the mysterious and angry kabbalist Amit — doesn’t preclude that.

From Salon

Artist, occultist, filmmaker, ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, mystic, shaman and kabbalist, he was also an avid collector of blues and folk records, paper airplanes, string figures, Ukrainian Easter eggs, Kiowa peyote songs, ambient street sounds and more.

He was an alchemist, a Freemason, a mathematician, a kabbalist.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement