Cabiric

English

Cabiric (comparative more Cabiric, superlative most Cabiric)

Of or relating to the Cabeiri, or to their mystical worship.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
  Processional marches not a few our world has seen; Roman triumphs and ovations, Cabiric cymbal-beatings, Royal progresses, Irish funerals: but this of the French Monarchy marching to its bed remained to be seen.
- 1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page v. 123:
  It is, indeed, part of the ritual of the candidate for adeptship into the British mysteries, resembling that for the neophyte into the Osirian, Cabiric or Orphean mysteries.

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