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Pall
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 Senses relating to cloth.; Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes. archaic, poetic
- 2 A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence. obsolete, rare
"Tho the Impatience of abſtaining be greater; the Pleaſure of Indulgence is really leſs. The Palls or Nauseatings which continually intervene, are of the worſt and moſt hateful kind of Senſation. Hardly is there any thing taſted which is wholly free from this ill reliſh of a ſurfeited Senſe and ruin'd Appetite."
- 3 Alternative form of pawl. alt-of, alternative
- 4 hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) wordnet
- 5 Senses relating to cloth.; A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.
"After his death he [Diocletian] remained corporeally in possession of the palace, his tomb resting in the centre of the mausoleum. Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime, […]"
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- 6 burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped wordnet
- 7 Senses relating to cloth.; A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.
- 8 a sudden numbing dread wordnet
- 9 Senses relating to cloth.; A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church, such as a corporal (“cloth on which elements of the Eucharist are placed”) or frontal (“drapery covering the front of an altar”). obsolete
- 10 Senses relating to clothing.; An outer garment; a cloak, mantle, or robe. archaic
"In a long purple pall, whose ſkirt with gold, / Was fretted all about, ſhe was arayd, […]"
- 11 Senses relating to clothing.; Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion. figuratively
"The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration."
- 12 Senses relating to clothing.; Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”).
"By the way, a pall is a pontifical vestment, considerable for the matter, making, and mysteries thereof. […] But, to speak plainly, the mystery of mysteries in this pall was, that the archbishops' receiving it showed therein their dependence on Rome; and a mote, in this manner ceremoniously taken, was an acknowledgement of their subjection. And as it owned Rome's power, so in after-ages it increased their profit. For, though now such palls were freely given to archbishops, […] yet in after-ages the archbishop of Canterbury's pall was sold for five thousand florins: […]"
- 13 Senses relating to clothing.; A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y, sometimes charged with crosses.
"The flag of South Africa has a green pall"
- 1 To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall. transitive
"Come, thick Night, / And pall thee in the dunneſt ſmoake of Hell, / That my keene Knife ſee not the Wound it makes, / Nor Heauen peepe through the Blanket of the darke, / To cry, hold, hold."
- 2 To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken. transitive
"[…] Reaſon and Reflection, which by repreſenting perpetually to the mind of Man the meanneſs of all ſenſual Gratifications, do, in great meaſure, blunt the edge of his keeneſt Deſires, and pall all his Enjoyments."
- 3 Alternative form of pawl. alt-of, alternative
- 4 lose interest or become bored with something or somebody wordnet
- 5 To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste. intransitive
"The liquor palls."
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- 6 lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to) wordnet
- 7 become less interesting or attractive wordnet
- 8 lose sparkle or bouquet wordnet
- 9 cause to become flat wordnet
- 10 cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing wordnet
- 11 cover with a pall wordnet
- 12 cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English pal, palle, from Old English pæl, pæll, from Old French paile and Latin pallium (“cloak; covering”) (and thus a doublet of pallium), probably from palla (“piece of cloth worn as apparel”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; hide, skin; cloth”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).
From the noun pall (“cloth”).
Formed by aphesis from appal, appall (“(obsolete) to make pale; to weaken; to become weak; to lose flavour or become stale”), possibly under the influence of the figurative meaning of the unrelated noun pall. Alternatively, the word may be derived from Middle English pallen (“to diminish, impair, weaken; to become faint; to lose spirit”), formed by aphesis from apallen (“to become or make faint or tired; to become indifferent; to fade or cause to fade away; to dim, weaken; to become stale; to be frightened; to frighten; to become pale”), from Old French apalir (“to become or cause to become pale”), possibly from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid; pale with fright, frightened; mouldy, musty”), from palleō (“to be pale, turn pale; to be anxious or fearful; to fade or change colour”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel-, *pelH- (“grey; pale”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives).
From the verb pall (“to make vapid”).
Various origins: * Borrowed from Hungarian Páll, a variant of Pál. * Borrowed from Telugu పాల్ (pāl), a rendition of the personal name Paul.
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