Word of the Day March 17

Word of the Day for Wednesday March 17, 2005

   cabal \kuh-BAHL; kuh-BAL\, noun:
   1.   A  secret,  conspiratorial  association  of  plotters  or
   intriguers whose purpose is usually to bring about an overturn
   especially in public affairs.
   2. The schemes or plots of such an association.

   intransitive verb:
   To form a cabal; to conspire; to intrigue; to plot.

     If  you constantly disagreed with Winters, he wrote you out
     of   his   cabal,   his   conspiracy   against  the  poetry
     establishment.
     --Richard Elman, [1]Namedropping: Mostly Literary Memoirs

     My  father  always  had  been  a  collector. There were the
     stamps,  National  Geographics,  scrapbooks filled with his
     favorite  political  cartoons,  and booklets justifying his
     belief  that  the  world  was under the control of a global
     cabal  of  elites  unified  by  such  organizations  as the
     Trilateral  Commission,  the  Council on Foreign Relations,
     and the Freemasons.
     --Frederick Kempe, [2]Father/Land