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  • English Word -cae Definition of Hierotheca
  • English Word -ces Definition of Inadvertence
  • English Word -cies Definition of Superintendency
  • English Word -cies Definition of Inadvertency
  • English Word C Definition C after the clef is the mark of common time, in which each measure is a semibreve (four fourths or crotchets); for alla breve time it is written /.
  • English Word C Definition The keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale of the same.
  • English Word C Definition As a numeral, C stands for Latin centum or 100, CC for 200, etc.
  • English Word C Definition The "C clef," a modification of the letter C, placed on any line of the staff, shows that line to be middle C.
  • English Word C. G. S. Definition An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to a system of units much employed in physical science, based upon the centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or mass, and the second as the unit of time.
  • English Word Ca ira Definition The refrain of a famous song of the French Revolution.
  • English Word Caaba Definition The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Mohammedans must pray.
  • English Word Caada Definition A small caon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley.
  • English Word Caas Definition Case.
  • English Word Cab Definition A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.
  • English Word Cab Definition The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.
  • English Word Cab Definition A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.
  • English Word Cabal Definition Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala
  • English Word Cabal Definition A secret.
  • English Word Cabal Definition A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto.
  • English Word Cabal Definition The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue.
  • English Word Cabal Definition To unite in a small party to promote private views and interests by intrigue; to intrigue; to plot.
  • English Word Cabala Definition A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means.
  • English Word Cabala Definition Secret science in general; mystic art; mystery.
  • English Word Cabalism Definition The secret science of the cabalists.
  • English Word Cabalism Definition A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes.
  • English Word Cabalist Definition One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions.
  • English Word Cabalistic Definition Alt. of Cabalistical
  • English Word Cabalistical Definition Of or pertaining to the cabala; containing or conveying an occult meaning; mystic.
  • English Word Cabalistically Definition In a cabalistic manner.
  • English Word Cabalize Definition To use cabalistic language.