An archaic or alternative form of cabbalistic, meaning relating to or characteristic of the Cabbala and its mystical interpretations.
Formed by adding the '-al' suffix to cabbalistic, creating a double-suffix adjective (cabbalist + ic + al) that was more common in older English but is now largely replaced by the simpler cabbalistic form.
English used to love these doubled suffix adjectives—'poetical' and 'poetic,' 'mystical' and 'mystica,' 'grammatical' and 'grammatica'—but we gradually standardized toward the shorter versions, so 'cabbalistical' sounds charmingly archaic now, like something from a 17th-century occult book.
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