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nories. Vid. Hift. Acad. Scienc. an. 1708. p. 66. Nought- Collect. T. 2. N 3 324. p. 336. See the article Aloes.

Sulphur Cafallinum, denotes common brimftone. J^uincy, Pharmac. P. 2. feci. 4. n. 382. p. 157. Sec the article Sul- phur.

The word is formed from the middle age Latin caballus, and that from the Greek *«0*mmkj a horfe. Du Cange, GlofT. Gnec. T. 1. p. 525, feq.

CABBAGES, in gardening. — All the common forts of cabbages are largely cultivated about London. The common white, red, flat, and long-fided ones, are chiefly for winter ufe. The feeds of thefe forts muft therefore be {"own in the middle of March, in beds of good frefh earth ; and in April, when the young plants will have about eight leaves apiece, they are to be pricked out into fhady borders, about three inches fquare, and, about the middle of May, they muft be tranfplanted to the places where they are to remain: and. this is common- ly between cauliflowers or artichokes, at about two feet dif- tance in the rows. They muft be watered at times, and the earth muft be houghed up about their roots, and kept clear from weeds.

Thefe cabbages will be fit for ufe foon after Michaelmas, and will continue till February, if not deftroyed by bad weather ; to prevent which, the gardners about London pull up their cabbages in November, and trench the ground in ridges, lay- ing their cabbages againft the ridges, as clofe as poflible on one fide, burying their ftems in the ground ; and in this manner they let them remain till after Chriftmas, when they cut them for market.

The Ruflian cabbage is final], and not much cultivated now. It is to be raifed as the others, but may be planted nearer, as not fo large; It is fit for ufe in July.

The early Batterfea and fugar-loaf cabbages are fown for fum- mer ufe, and are commonly called Michaelmas cabbages. The feafon for fowing thefe is the beginning of July, in an open fpot of ground. It is common to fow fpinage in the fame beds with thefe, houghing it up from about their ftalks in fpring ; in May and June thefe begin to turn their leaves for cabbaging^ and may be brought to it much fooncr than natu- rally they would, by tying them about the top with an ozier band.

The Savoy cabbages are for winter ufe, and are to be fown about the beginning of April ; they are to be treated as the common cabbage, and planted out at two feet diftance, in an open place.

The bore-cole may be cultivated in the fame manner, but muft be planted only at one foot diftance ; thefe are not fit to cut till the frofts have nipped them.

The method of getting good cabbage-feed is this : Choofe out fome fair plants in October, pull them up, and hang them up three days, with the root upward, in a fhady place ; then plant them under a warm hedge, burying the whole ftalk and half the cabbage in the earth ; cover them with culm if the win- ter be fevere, and in fpring they will fhootout many branches. When thefe begin to pod, the ends of the tipper ones fhould be cut off, to give ftrength to the other pods. The feed muft be preferved from the birds, by planting fome lime twigs about the plants, where the catching one or two will intimidate the reft. When ripe, it muft be threfhed out, and kept for ufe. Miller's Gardn. Diet, in voc. See Brassica.

The cabbage removes, as it is faid, the confequences of hard drinkuig ; and it has been well known to be a cuftom among many at this time, as well as among the antient Egyptians of old, to eat raw or boiled cabbage^ as a prefervative againft the effects of wine. This feems to have fprung from the opinion of the great antipathy of the plants to one another ; it having been affirmed, that the vine and cabbage will by no means grow together; and fomeof the moderns have endeavoured to ac- count for this, from the nature of thefe two plants, by faying, that they are both fo fond of nutritive juice, as greedily to fuck up all thejuices of the earth, and by that means, when plant- ed near, to ftarve one another. But we have no reafon to have recourfe to thefe falvoes, fince there is not the leaft truth in the obfervation, but the vine and cabbage grow as well together as any two plants in the world. Ephemerid. German. N, C. D. 297.

CABBAGING, among gardners, is fometimes ufed to denote the knitting or gathering of certain pot-herbs into round bun- ched heads.

In which fenfe the word amounts to the fame with what Eve- lyn calls pom'mg, pommcr a ; q. d. appling, or growing apple- wife. Others call it fimply heading or bunching b. — [ ? - Vid. £vel. French Garden, p. 175. b Trev. Diet. Univ. T. 4, p. 739. voc. Pommer.]

To makelettice cabbage, they tranfplant it, taking care, dur- ing the great heats, to water it ; otherwife, inftead of poming, it runs to feed c. To promote the cabbaging of cabbage, thofe who live on the fea-coaft, put fea-weed, with a little nitre, un- dertheir roots J. — [ c Evel. lib. cit. p. 183. d Vallem. Curiof. de la Nat. &de l'Art, ap. Jour, des Scav. T. 46. p. 259 ] Cabbage plants of the early kind begin to turn in their leaves for cabbaging -m May <=. The Batterfea fort cabbage apace when they once begin, and as foon grow hard and burft open ; but the fugar-loaf kind is longer before it comes, and is as

flow in its cabbaging f .— [ c MS. Gard. Diet, in voc. f Id. ibid.] CABBALA, {Cycl.)~ This is by fome called the acroamatlc phi- lofophy of Mofes, by way of contradiftinction from the exo- teric or popular doctrine. Budd. Introd. ad Philof. Hebr. p. 48. See the article Acroamatic.

The generality of Jews prefer the cabbala to the Scripture ; comparing the former to the fparkling luftre of a precious ftone, and the latter to the fainter glimmering of a candle. Cherubin. Bibl. Crit. Sacr. T. 3. DifT. 1. Jour, des Scav. T. 36. p. 30.

It is divided into nominal and real. The nominal or literal cabbala is that employed in the myftic ufe of letters, names and numbers; or that which, from the names of God, and the let- ters, words, fyllables, numbers and numerals of the Hebrew text, draws myftical doarines and applications. To which head belong efpecially the compofition of anagrams chronograms, and other frivolous purfults of that kind, only allowed among us to children and novices. Burn. Archasol I. 1. c. 7. Phil.Tranf. N° 201. p. 800. The cabbala only differs from maforak, as the latter denotes the fcience of reading the Scripture, the former of interpreting it. Both are fuppofed to have been handed down from generation to generation by oral tradition only, till at length the readings were fixed by the vowels and accents, as the interpretations were by the mifnah and gemara. Prideaux, Conn. P. 1. 1 c p. 506. " •>'

The real cabbala is that employed in difcovering the myftcries of nature *nd religion, the properties of fpirits, the heavens elements, &\. from the contemplation of the ten fephirotl/ and the four cabbaliftical worlds, Azilath, Briah, Jctxizah, and' JJhiah; i. e. the worlds of emanation, creation, formation, and of the fabric; before which they fometimes alfo put the Enfiphic, or infinite world ; from which all the others are fup- pofed to fpring. Burn. Archaol. Philof. 1. 1. c. 7. Philof Tranfact. N° 201. p. 800, feq. '

The generality of latter critics hold the cabbala a mere figment or invention of the modern rabbins.

The literal fort appears to have been utterly unknown to the antient Jews. Jofephus makes no mention of it; and Philo, Origen, and Epiphanius, who were moft converfant in the Jewifh literature, fay not one word of the cabbala. Nor is there the leaft footftcp of it in the Talmud, or any of the an- tient Jewifh writers. Cherubin, Bibl. Crit. Sacr. loc. cit. For the real fort, it Is chiefly borrowed from the philofophy of Plato and Pythagoras ; tho' fome pretend to deduce it from the hieroglyphic wifdom of the Egyptians.

The firft author who delivered any thing of the cabbala, was Joachaides, 'or Simon fon of Joachai, who publifhed that fa- mous cabbaliftical work entitled Zohar. Some fay, he lived- about the time of the deftruction of Jerufalem by 7'itus ; others only in the tenth century. Bafn. Hift. des Juifs, 1. £ c. 10. ■**

Several chriftians have given into the mM^, particularly Picus Mirandula, Reuchlin, Henry More, and Knorre a Rofenroth, counfellor of the prince of Sultzbach, who bellow the higheft encomiums on it, and reprefent it as the key to all pure and real knowledge. Henry More aflures us, that all his learning and philofophy ended in mere fcepticifm, till he applied his mind to the divine and hidden fcience of the cabbala, which, in a fhort time, brought him forth into the moft glorious 1 i<*ht, and filled his foul with notices utterly ineffable. More. C)nn' Philof. T. 1. inPref. U *

Galatinus will have the antient rabbins to have known and be- lieved the myftery of the Trinity by the cabbala ; and Para- celfus, and his followers, aflat Aaron, Elias, David, Bildad, &c. to have been great cabbalifts.

Dr. Burnet examines into the merits of the feveral parts of the cabbala, which he finds to be without rational foundation, and not conducing to any real knowledge. But he conjectures,, that the moft antient cabbala, before it was confounded and defiled with fables, might contain fomething of the orio-inal of things, and their gradations; particularly, that, before the cre- ation, all things had their being in God ; that from him they flowed as emanations; that they will all flow back again into him, when they arc deftroyed ; and that there will fuccecd other emanations and regenerations, and other deftructions and abfoiptions to all eternity, as they had been from all eternity ; that nothing is produced out of nothing ; and that the things produced never return to nothing, but always have their fub- fiftence in God. Burn. Archseol. 1. 1. c. 7. Phil. Tranf, N° 201. p. 800.

CABBALIC art, Ars caballica, is ufed by fome writers for ar.? palajlrica, or the art of wreftling. Gal. ad Thrafyb. c. 45, Fcef. CEcon. Hippoc. p. 294, Cajt. Lex. Med. p. 1 18.

CABBALISTIC art. See Cabbala, and Cabealists. D. Franc. Berlendi, a theatin of Venice (under the fictitious name of C Berardo Schinflini) has publifhed a cabalhmachia, or refutation of the cabbalifticz.it. Giorn. de Letter, d'ltal. T. 30. p. 456. Venet. 17 18. 8°.

CABBALISTS, in the primitive fenfe, the fame with thofe other- wife called Tanaim, Amoraim, Seburaim, &c. Cabbalifts differ from maforites, as the former were employed about the interpretation of Scripture, and the latter about the 4 true