▪ I. palled, ppl. a.1
(pɔːld)
[f. pall v.1 + -ed1.]
† 1. Enfeebled, weakened, impaired. Obs.
| c 1386 Chaucer Manciple's Prol. 55 So vnweeldy was this sory palled goost. c 1386 ― Shipman's T. 102 (Corpus MS.) Eny old palled [v.r. appalled] wight. 1494 Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxlv. 288 Than began the trumpettys and tabours to blowe, whiche reuyued the palled hartys. 1601 Holland Pliny xii. xii. 364 The colour is more pallat and weake [colore languido] inclining to white. 1605 1st Pt. Ieronimo ii. iv, Which strooke amazement to their pauled speeche. 1606 Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. vii. 87 Ile neuer follow Thy paul'd Fortunes more. 1668 Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. ii. vi. 100 It receives the Liver blood..which..is become pauled and sluggish, and has lost its heat. |
2. Of fermented liquor, etc.: That has lost its briskness or freshness; flat, stale, vapid. arch.
| c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 168 Who forsakithe wyne and drynkithe ale pallid. 14.. Song temp. Hen. VI (Harl. MS.), Bryng us home no sydyr, nor no palde wyne. 1565–73 Cooper Thesaurus, Mucidum vinum, a palled wine or dead. 1629 Massinger Picture v. i, With a spoon⁓ful of palled wine poured in their water. 1711 E. Ward Vulgus Brit. v. 58 Or that the Turky..Should..Be pall'd, o'er-roasted, and unfit, For such a Fine-mouth'd Saint to eat. 1884 Longm. Mag. Feb. 384 Her high spirits were as flat as palled soda-water. |
3. Deadened to pleasant tastes or impressions; satiated, cloyed, disgusted.
| 1691 Dryden Amphitryon iii. i, Palled in desires, and surfeited of bliss. 1709 Steele Tatler No. 54 ¶1 Pall'd Appetite is humorous, and must be gratify'd with Sauces rather than Food. 1795 Southey Vis. Maid Orleans ii. 112 The epicure Here pampers his foul frame, till the pall'd sense Loathes at the banquet. 1859 Kingsley Misc. (1860) I. 222 The palled taste of an unhealthy age. |
▪ II. palled, ppl. a.2
(pɔːld, poet. -ɪd)
[f. pall v.3 (or n.1) + -ed.]
Covered with or robed in a pall.
| 1839 Bailey Festus xxiii. (1848) 289 Swathed in clouds As though in plumed and pallèd state. 1850 Tennyson In Mem. lxx, Palled shapes In shadowy thoroughfares of thought. |