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cabal

English

Etymology

From French cabale, from Medieval Latin cabbala , which in turn is derived from Hebrew ????????? (kabalá, Jewish mysticism, literally reception, something received) (such as knowledge).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k??b??l/, /k??bæl/

Noun

cabal (plural cabals)

  1. (derogatory) A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.
    Synonym: camarilla
  2. A secret plot.
    Synonym: conspiracy
  3. An identifiable group within the tradition of Discordianism.
    • 1965 Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley, Principia Discordia
      Some episkoposes have a one-man cabal. Some work together. Some never do explain.

Derived terms

  • cabalistic
  • cabbalistic
  • TINC (there is no cabal)

Translations

Verb

cabal (third-person singular simple present cabals, present participle caballing, simple past and past participle caballed)

  1. To engage in the activities of a cabal.

References

See also

  • cabal glass

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin cap?lis, from Latin capit?lis. Equivalent to cap +? -al.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /k??bal/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /ka?bal/
  • Rhymes: -al

Adjective

cabal (masculine and feminine plural cabals)

  1. complete, total
  2. upright, well-rounded

Noun

cabal m (plural cabals)

  1. goods, possessions
  2. (of a fluid) flow, discharge
  3. (telecommunications) throughput

Derived terms

  • cabaler

Further reading

  • “cabal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Etymology

From Late Latin capalis or from cabo +? -al.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [k???al]

Adjective

cabal m or f (plural cabais)

  1. whole, complete
    • 1823, Pedro Boado Sánchez, Diálogo entre dos Labradores gallegos afligidos:
      E may-lo Alcalde habíase d’alegrar, qu’el tamen está picado, qu’ainda n-hay ano é medio cabal que lle morreo á muller, é tamen pagou á farda como cada fillo de veciño.
      And the mayor would also be glad, because he's also piqued, because there's not a whole year and a half that his wife died and he also paid the burden as every mother's son
    Synonym: completo
  2. exact
    Synonym: exacto

Related terms

  • cabo

References

  • “cabal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “cabal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Portuguese

Adjective

cabal m or f (plural cabais, comparable)

  1. complete
  2. rigorous
  3. exact
  4. satisfactory

Spanish

Etymology

cabo +? -al

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -al

Adjective

cabal (plural cabales)

  1. upright, honest
  2. exact
  3. complete, entire, full

Derived terms

  • en sus cabales

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compass

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: k?m?p?s, IPA(key): /?k?m.p?s/
  • Rhymes: -?mp?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English compas (a circle, circuit, limit, form, a mathematical instrument), from Old French compas, from Medieval Latin compassus (a circle, a circuit), from Latin com- (together) + passus (a pace, step, later a pass, way, route); see pass, pace.

Noun

compass (plural compasses)

  1. A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).
    • 1689/1690, John Locke, On improvement of understanding
      He that [...] first discovered the use of the compass [...] did more for the propagation of knowledge [...] than those who built workhouses.
    • 1890, Wilhelm Westhofen, The Forth Bridge
      a glance at his compass would have shown him that a northerly course instead of an easterly could not be right
  2. A pair of compasses (a device used to draw an arc or circle).
    • 1701, Jonathan Swift, A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome, Chapter 5
      to fix one foot of their compass wherever they please
  3. (music) The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.
  4. (obsolete) A space within limits; an area.
    • 1763, M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), page 47:
      In going up the Missisippi [sic], we meet with nothing remarkable before we come to the Detour aux Anglois, the English Reach: in that part the river takes a large compass.
    • 1711, Joseph Addison, The Spectator
      Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
    • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 14
      Clara thought she had never seen him look so small and mean. He was as if trying to get himself into the smallest possible compass.
  5. (obsolete) An enclosing limit; a boundary, a circumference.
  6. Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with within.
    • c. 1610, John Davies, Historical Tracts
      In two hundred years before (I speak within compass), no such commission had been executed.
  7. (archaic) scope.
    • 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion Book 8
      the compass of his argument
    • 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, Oxford University Press (1973), section 8:
      There is a truth and falsehood in all propositions on this subject, and a truth and falsehood, which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding.
    • 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
      How very commonly we hear it remarked that such and such thoughts are beyond the compass of words! I do not believe that any thought, properly so called, is out of the reach of language.
  8. (obsolete) A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
    • 1611, King James Version, 2 Kings iii. 9
      They fetched a compass of seven days' journey.
Synonyms
  • (magnetic direction finder): magnetic compass
  • (device used to draw circular curves): pair of compasses
Hyponyms
  • (pair of compasses): beam compass
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English compassen (to go around, make a circuit, draw a circle, contrive, intend), from Old French compasser; from the noun; see compass as a noun.

Verb

compass (third-person singular simple present compasses, present participle compassing, simple past and past participle compassed)

  1. To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round.
    • 1610, The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, act 5 scene 1
      Now all the blessings
      Of a glad father compass thee about!
    • And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
  2. To go about or round entirely; to traverse.
  3. (dated) To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain.
    • 1763, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emilius; or, an essay on education, translated by M. Nugent, page 117:
      [...] they never find ways sufficient to compass that end.
    • 1816, Catholicon: or, the Christian Philosopher, volume 3, from July to December 1816, page 56:
      [...] to settle the end of our action or disputation; and then to take fit and effectual means to compass that end.
    • 1921 November 23, The New Republic, volume 28, number 364, page 2:
      The immediate problem is how to compass that end: by the seizure of territory or by the cultivation of the goodwill of the people whose business she seeks.
  4. (dated) To plot; to scheme (against someone).
    • 1600, The Arraignment and Judgement of Captain Thomas Lee, published in 1809, by R. Bagshaw, in Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials, volume 1, page 1403–04:
      That he plotted and compassed to raise Sedition and Rebellion [...]
    • 1794 November 1, Speech of Mr. Erskine in Behalf of Hardy, published in 1884, by Chauncey Allen Goodrich, in Select British Eloquence, page 719:
      But it went beyond it by the loose construction of compassing to depose the King, [...]
    • 1915, The Wireless Age, volume 2, page 580:
      The Bavarian felt a mad wave of desire for her sweep over him. What scheme wouldn't he compass to mould that girl to his wishes.
Synonyms
  • (surround): encircle, environ, surround
  • (go about or around entirely): cover, traverse
  • (accomplish): accomplish, achieve, attain, gain, get to, reach
  • (plot (against someone)): conspire, plot, scheme
Translations

Adverb

compass (comparative more compass, superlative most compass)

  1. (obsolete) In a circuit; round about.
    • 1658, Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial,[1] Penguin (2005), ?ISBN, page 9:
      Near the same plot of ground, for about six yards compasse were digged up coals and incinerated substances, []

References

  • compass in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • compass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Middle English

Noun

compass

  1. Alternative form of compas

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