cabalize

verb8

1. •
   To engage in politics as part of a cabal.

   • The cabinet became a center of petty bickering and continuous cabalizing, and Congress split into irreconcilable factions and repeated asserted its will against the president. — 2017
2. •
   To control or manipulate via a cabal or secret political organization.

   • Neopatrimonialism describes a political system in which political power is personalized and in some cases cabalized; public offices and resources are prebendalized — 1995
3. •
   To study and interpret the Kabbalah.

   • All the efforts to prove it have ended in mere appeals to cabalizing Jews, who lived long after the New Testament was written . — 1864
4. •
   To encode as a Haskell package with the ".cabal" extension, which can then be installed and interpreted using the cabal command.

   • The scaffolded site is built as a fully cabalized Haskell package. — 2012
5. •
   To make mysterious; to entangle or obscure with the trappings of religion, mysticism, or superstition.

   • The Druids, says Rowlands, considered nature in her largest extent: in her systems and in her motions; in her magnitudes and powers; in all which they seemed to cabalize. — 1785
6. •
   To encode using wordplay such as acrostics or ciphers.

   • Since then anything we see cabalized, or a word that was formed from the initials of other words, so we have ours. — 1931
7. •
   To decode or demystify.

   • This way of Cabalizing gave the Name to Judas Maccabaus — 1693
8. •
   (rare) To use cabalistic language or perform cabalistic magic.

   • Having nothing to do, I took out my besmeared cards, sat under the stove and began to cabalize. — 1900