Cabal (Cabal`) , a secret intriguing faction in a State, a name applied to a junto of five ministers of Charles II. in power from 1668 to 1673, the initials of whose names go to make up the word; their names were Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, Arlington, and Lauderdale; derived from Cabala (q.v.).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Caaba * Cab`ala