Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PALL, v.t.²

1. To make vapid or insipid. Reason and reflection … blunt the edge of the keenest desires, and pall all his enjoyments. – Atterbury.
2. To make spiritless; to dispirit; to depress. The more we raise our love, / The more we pall and cool and kill his ardor. – Dryden.
3. To weaken; to impair; as, to pall fortune. – Shak.
4. To cloy; as, the palled appetite. – Tatler.