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CABALIST

Definition: CABALIST

CABALIST

Noun

1. One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CABALIST" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references)



Specialty Definitions: CABALIST

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Cabalist A Jewish doctor who professed the study of the Cabala, a mysterious science said to have been delivered to the Jews by revelation, and transmitted by oral tradition. This science consisted mainly in understanding the combination of certain letters, words, and numbers, said to be significant. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: CABALIST

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CABALIST

"CABALIST" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CABALIST" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CABALIST

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

the cabalist

9

cabalist daoc

4

cabalist hebrew writings

2
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Modern Translations: CABALIST

Language Translations for "CABALIST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏مذهب سري. (various references)

   

French

  

cabaliste. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kabalista. (various references)

   

Italian

  

cabalista, occultista (occultist). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abalistcay.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

cabalista. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: CABALIST

Derivations

Words beginning with "CABALIST": cabalistic, cabalists. (additional references)


Misspellings

"CABALIST" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: catalist, kabalist, kabbalist, Kabelitz. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "CABALIST"

Words rhyming with "CABALIST" (pronounced 'Cab"a*list'): Acephalist, Agricolist, Amnicolist, Animalculist, Aquarellist, Arcubalist, Bibliophilist, Bibliopolist, Biblist, Bicyclist, Bimetallist, Blacklist, Carlist, Curialist, Cyclist, Experientiallist, Fabulist, Familist, Famulist, Funambulist, Glist, Gulist, Homilist, Hyperbolist, Iconophilist, Ignicolist, Inlist, Metallist, Monometallist, monopolist, Myropolist, Nemophilist, Nephalist, Newfanglist, Niellist, Noctambulist, Oculist, OEnophilist, Ovulist, Parabolist, Perfectibilist, Pharmacopolist, Philatelist, Physoclist, Plebicolist, Populist, Reenlist, Ruricolist, sciolist, Scrupulist, Simplist, somnambulist, Speculist, Uckewallist, Violoncellist, Vocabulist, Zoophilist. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CABALIST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: basaltic.

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-i-l-s-t"

-2 letters: abatis, basalt, cabals, casita, tablas, ticals.

-3 letters: abaci, albas, alias, alist, atlas, baals, bails, baits, balas, balsa, basal, basic, basil, blast, blats, cabal, clast, clits, labia, laics, litas, salic, tabla, tails, talas, talcs, tical.

-4 letters: aals, abas, acta, acts, ails, aits, alas, alba, albs, alit, alts, asci, baal, baas, bail, bait, bals, bast, bats, bias, bits, blat, cabs, casa, cast, cats, cist, clit, isba, labs, lacs, laic, last, lati, lats, libs, list, lits, sail, salt, sati, scab, scat, sial, silt, slab, slat, slit, stab, tabs, tail, tala, talc, tali, tics, tils.

-5 letters: aal, aas, aba, abs, act, ail, ais, ait, ala, alb, als, alt, baa, bal, bas, bat, bis, bit, cab, cat, cis, its, lab, lac, las, lat, lib, lis, lit, sab, sac, sal, sat, sib, sic, sit, tab, tas, tic, til, tis.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-i-l-s-t"
 

+1 letter: bicoastal, cabalists, tailbacks.

 

+2 letters: blacktails, blatancies, botanicals, cabalistic, calibrates, catabolism, sabbatical, ultrabasic.

 

+3 letters: blastematic, calibrators, castability, catabolisms, catabolites, catabolizes, sabbaticals, saltimbocca, syllabicate, ultrabasics.

 

+4 letters: actabilities, antibacklash, antiblackism, calibrations, capabilities, distractable, lactalbumins, recalibrates, saltimboccas, sanctionable, secobarbital, syllabicated, syllabicates.

 

+5 letters: abstractional, amicabilities, analphabetics, antiblackisms, ascertainable, ballistically, bombastically, cannibalistic, castabilities, confiscatable, lactobacillus, megaloblastic, packabilities, placabilities, secobarbitals, suballocation, sybaritically, syllabicating, syllabication.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CABALIST


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 41 42 41 4C 49 53 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    -...    .-    .-..    ..    ...    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000001 01000010 01000001 01001100 01001001 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#66 &#65 &#76 &#73 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0042 0041 004C 0049 0053 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3735363546435354

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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