英语词汇cabal的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cabal. This word, for a group of conspirators, has for many years been popularly regarded as the most famous acronym in English. Tradition has it that the word was formed from the initials of certain members of King Charles II’s infamous min- istry in the years 1667–73. Clifford, Ashley (Shaftesbury), Buckingham, Arlington, and Lauderdale were only five among a number of Charles’s ministers who plotted often diametrically opposed secret intrigues. They rarely met all together, although they did constitute the Privy Council foreign committee. The infamous five did, however, secretly sign the Treaty of Alliance with France in 1672, without Parliament’s approval, forcing the nation into war with Holland. After this shameful episode, their enemies were quick to point out that their initials formed the word cabal, but this does not say that cabal originated with the acrostic ministry. Cabal, for a society of intriguers, had pre- viously been introduced into English from the Latin cabbala, which derives, in turn, from the Hebrew qabbalah. The qub- balah were doctrines said to be originally received from Moses, enabling their possessors to unlock secrets of magical power. During the Middle Ages, the secret meetings of cabbala groups claiming knowledge of such doctrines gave rise to the English word cabal. Cabal did, however, take on a new political signifi- cance and popularity in English with the machinations of Clif- ford and the others. The historian Macaulay writes, for example, that “These ministers were called the Cabal, and they soon made the appellation so infamous that it has never since their time been used except as a term of reproach.”

词汇	cabal
词源	cabal. This word, for a group of conspirators, has for many years been popularly regarded as the most famous acronym in English. Tradition has it that the word was formed from the initials of certain members of King Charles II’s infamous min- istry in the years 1667–73. Clifford, Ashley (Shaftesbury), Buckingham, Arlington, and Lauderdale were only five among a number of Charles’s ministers who plotted often diametrically opposed secret intrigues. They rarely met all together, although they did constitute the Privy Council foreign committee. The infamous five did, however, secretly sign the Treaty of Alliance with France in 1672, without Parliament’s approval, forcing the nation into war with Holland. After this shameful episode, their enemies were quick to point out that their initials formed the word cabal, but this does not say that cabal originated with the acrostic ministry. Cabal, for a society of intriguers, had pre- viously been introduced into English from the Latin cabbala, which derives, in turn, from the Hebrew qabbalah. The qub- balah were doctrines said to be originally received from Moses, enabling their possessors to unlock secrets of magical power. During the Middle Ages, the secret meetings of cabbala groups claiming knowledge of such doctrines gave rise to the English word cabal. Cabal did, however, take on a new political signifi- cance and popularity in English with the machinations of Clif- ford and the others. The historian Macaulay writes, for example, that “These ministers were called the Cabal, and they soon made the appellation so infamous that it has never since their time been used except as a term of reproach.”
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