Talk:cabalize
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Kiwima in topic RFV discussion: November–December 2021
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Rare MooreDoor (talk) 08:42, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
cited Kiwima (talk) 05:30, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- Not convinced. Why would anybody "sit under the stove and use cabalistic language"? And the third sense is used transitively Notusbutthem (talk) 00:20, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
- The full context of the Jasiencyk quote has someone cabalizing using cards in order to perform an exorcism and/or tell a fortune (not totally clear which). I'm not sure which sense it belongs under, but I don't think it is "using cabalistic language". The 2002 quote seems to be a figurative use of sense 3 or 4.
- I found a few other intransitive uses [1] [2] and here (the Boschini book, not visible in the actual snippet). May I suggest broadening sense 4 to be both transitive and intransitive, with a reworded, less specific definition? This, that and the other (talk) 01:52, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
RFV-resolved Kiwima (talk) 21:16, 6 December 2021 (UTC)