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pall

noun
/pɔːl/UK/pɔl/US

Etymology

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).

  1. derived from *pel-✻
  2. derived from pallium
  3. derived from paile
  4. inherited from pæl
  5. inherited from pal

Definitions

  1. Senses relating to cloth.

  2. Senses relating to clothing.

    • In a long purple pall, whose ſkirt with gold, / Was fretted all about, ſhe was arayd, […]
    • His [Hercules's] Lyons skin chaungd to a pall of gold, / In which forgetting warres, he onely ioyed / In combats of ſweet loue, and with his miſtreſſe toyed.

  3. To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.

    • 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.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. To make vapid or insipid

      To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.

      • […] 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.

    2. To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid

      To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.

      • The liquor palls.
      • [T]he ale and byere haue palled, and were nought, by cause such ale and biere hathe taken wynde in spurgyng.
      • Beauty ſoon grows familiar to the lover, / Fades in the eye, and palls upon the ſenſe.

    3. A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.

    4. Alternative form of pawl.

    5. A surname.

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Derived

cast a pall, inverted pall, pallbearer, pallbearing, pallholder, pall inverted, pall reversed, pallwise, reversed pall, tarpaulin, per pall

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA