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pall
UK /pɔːl/ US /pɔl/
noun 7verb 4name 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
all, departmental, firm, gold, long, over, purple, rich
VERB + PALL
cast
PALL + NOUN
darkness, kirt, thee
PREP.
from, in, on, with
Definitions
noun
1
Senses relating to cloth.
2
Senses relating to cloth.
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, […]
3
Senses relating to cloth.
4
Senses relating to cloth.
5
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.
verb
1
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.
verb
1
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 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.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
- shroud
- cerement
- winding-sheet
- winding-clothes
noun — a sudden numbing dread
verb — become less interesting or attractive
verb — lose sparkle or bouquet
verb — cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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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 p
Wiktionary02
In a long purple pall, whose ſkirt with gold, / Was fretted all about, ſhe was arayd, […]
Wiktionary03
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.
Wiktionary04
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.
Wiktionary05
[…] 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 hi
Wiktionary06
The liquor palls.
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