Pall vs Satiate - What's the difference?
pall | satiate |
(archaic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
(Christianity) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.
(Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice.
(Christianity) A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).
* Fuller
(heraldiccharge) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.
* 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , Canongate (2006), page 150:
An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) nausea
(senseid) A feeling of gloom.
To cloak.
To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
* Atterbury
To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.
* Addison
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
To fill to satisfaction; to satisfy.
To satisfy to excess. To fill to satiety.
In transitive terms the difference between pall and satiate
is that pall is to make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken while satiate is to satisfy to excess. To fill to satiety.As verbs the difference between pall and satiate
is that pall is to cloak while satiate is to fill to satisfaction; to satisfy.As a noun pall
is fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.As an adjective satiate is
filled to satisfaction or to excess.pall
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, — the one for London, the other for York.
- Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime,
- His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.
- (Shaftesbury)
- A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored.
- The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.
Derived terms
* cast a pall * pallbearer * tarpaulinSynonyms
* (heraldry) pairleVerb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
from appall. Possibly influenced by the figurative meaning of the unrelated noun.Verb
(en verb)- Reason and reflection pall all his enjoyments.
- The liquor palls .
- Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, / Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.
- We are all becoming accustomed to adventure. It is beginning to pall on us. We suffered no casualties and there was no illness.
satiate
English
Verb
(satiat)- Nothing seemed to satiate her desire for knowledge.
Usage notes
Used interchangeably with, and more common than, sate.“Monthly Gleanings: November 2011]: Sate'' versus ''satiated''.”, ''[http://blog.oup.com/ OUPblog
