Definition of "cobwebbery"

When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […] ?

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page)

Much of the cobwebbery of superstition, ancient and modern, is readily brushed away by this confident and sure hand; but there are other facts, facts of Christian consciousness, which do not, from our standpoint, disappear so readily.

1878, The Literary World, volume 9, page 43