1. A secret organization or gathering of individuals typically dedicated to changing a government, often by violence: The government was toppled by a cabal of dissident and conspiratorial generals.
2. Intrigues, conspiracies, or plots engaged in by groups or individuals with the goal of getting a new government: The Russian emigres were constantly engaged in anti-soviet cabals.
3. Etymology: from the word cabbala or kabbala, referring to a Jewish tradition of interpreting texts.

Cabbala is often regarded as "a secret and mystical practice"; therefore, the word took on the additional meaning of "secret behavior".

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