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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, […]
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.
The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.
A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored.
1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:
The smoke-pall of industrial Lancashire hung over the landscape; perhaps slagscape would be a more fitting term. The general prospect was a succession of chimney-stacks, factories, pit-heads, slagheaps, junctions, sidings and coal wagons.
Night has spread her pall once more, And the prisoner still is free: Open is his dungeon door, Useless now his dungeon key!
2021 May 5, Drachinifel, 42:53 from the start, in Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?, archived from the original on 19 August 2022:
[…]and the pillar of smoke which had recently begun to dissipate, as many of the fires amidships had been smothered by the onrushing water, was replaced by a vast mushroom cloud of steam, smoke, flame, and debris as the magazines detonated. In the pall of this apocalyptic destruction, the U.S. fleet takes stock.
1655, Thomas Fuller, “Section II. The Seventh Century.”, in The Church-history of Britain; from the Birth of Jesus Christ, untill the Year M.DC.XLVIII, London: Printed for Iohn Williams, →OCLC; The Church History of Britain, In Three Volumes, 3rd edition, volume I, London: Printed for Thomas Tegg,, 1842, →OCLC, section 38 (What a Pall is), page 107:
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: […]
1840, , “Needlework of the Dark Ages”, in Countess of Wilton , editor, The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages; including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, publisher,, →OCLC, page 66:
Or it might be a magnificent pall, in the days in which this garment had lost its primitive character, that taxed the skill and the patience of the fair needlewoman. It was about the year a.d. 601 that Pope Gregory [I] sent two archbishop's palls into England; the one for London, which see was afterwards removed to Canterbury, and the other to York.
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.
Etymology 3
Formed by aphesis from appal, appall(“(obsolete) to make pale; to weaken; to become weak; to lose flavour or become stale”),[4] possibly under the influence of the figurative meaning of the unrelated noun pall.
Alternatively, the word may be derived from Middle Englishpallen(“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”),[5][2] from Old Frenchapalir(“to become or cause to become pale”), possibly from Latinpallidus(“pale, pallid; pale with fright, frightened; mouldy, musty”),[6] 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).
Verb
pall (third-person singular simple presentpalls, present participlepalling, simple past and past participlepalled)
1706 August 30, Francis Atterbury, A Sermon Preach’d in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul; at the Funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet, August 30. 1706, London: Printed and sold by H. Hills,, published 1707, →OCLC, page 4:
[…] 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.
[Storehouse for Children or Clerics, the First English–Latin Dictionary,] (Camden Society; LXXXIX) (in Middle English), London: Societatis Camdenensis [Camden Society], published 1865, →OCLC, footnote 2, page 380:
[T]he ale and byere haue palled, and were nought, by cause such ale and biere hathe taken wynde in spurgyng.
1712, [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy (A Select Collection of English Plays; IV), Edinburgh: Printed for G. Hamilton, and J. Balfour, published 1755, →OCLC, act I, scene iv, page 15:
Beauty ſoon grows familiar to the lover, / Fades in the eye, and palls upon the ſenſe.
And one day the new port palled, like a book one has read too often, or a picture one has looked at over-long. And it was sheet home the royals and off to a new port, where there were new strange people, and streets laid another way, and other things in the merchants' booths, and a new language to pick up a phrase or two of.
1699, [Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury], An Inquiry Concerning Virtue: In Two Discourses,, London: Printed for A. Bell E. Castle and S. Buckley, →OCLC; republished as “Treatise IV. Viz. An Inquiry Concerning Virtue, or Merit.”, in Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. In Three Volumes, volume II, [London: Printed by John Darby], 1711, →OCLC, book II, part II, section II, pages 149–150:
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.
Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 164
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