disapproval If you refer to a group of politicians or other people as a cabal, you are criticizing them because they meet and decide things secretly. He had been chosen by a cabal of fellow senators. a secret government cabal. a small group of people who make secret plans, especially in order to have political power (cabale, from cabbala , from qabbalah )
The name for Charles II's inner circle of advisers, from about 1667 to 1673, based on their initials: Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, Arlington, and Lauderdale
one of several suggested collective nouns for Goths Others are coven (yawn), sneering, sarcasm, flock (after ravens, one presumes) vanity and misery Archaeus firmly believes that a group of Goths seen on or shortly after leaving Slimelight should be called a smear 'Vanity' and 'misery' depend on who you hang around with, really, but 'cabal' has the advantage of having both occult connotations and a certain air of cachet, not to mention a nice reference to our habit of lurking in dark corners to gossip
ca bal [k*-'bal] n [F cabale, cabala, intrigue, cabal, fr ML cabbala cabala, fr LHeb] qabba-la-h, lit , received (lore) a number of persons secretly united to bring about an overturn or usurpation esp in public affairs the artifices and intrigues of such a group cabal vi or ca balled; or ca bal ling : to unite in or form a cabal fnord
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