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iffuing, with this view, various decrees concerning the 
nature, virtue, and neceflity, of the pallium ; till at length 
they proceeded to declare it unlawful fora metropolitan, 
archbiftiop, or primate, to exercife any branch of his 
power, till he had received his pall from Rome; nay, in 
feveral decrees, the metropolitical jurifdidiion and power 
were faid to be conferred by the pall ; and thus they 
made the pope the fountain of all ecclefiaftical power and 
authority. This doftrine feems to have been firft broached 
in the ninth century, though vigoroufly oppofed by 
Hincmar archbiffiop of Rheims, and feveral others. 
However, the doftrine prevailed; and the pall was de¬ 
clared by Innocent III. in the thirteenth century, to be 
an enfignor token of the plenitude of the apoftolic power, 
and faid to communicate a competent fliare of that power 
to thofe who received it from the hands of the popes. 
Till the time of Gregory VII. the new metropolitans 
were only required to fend for their palls within the fpace 
of three months after their ordination ; but this pope 
obliged all, unlefs prevented by fome lawful impediment, 
to come for them in perfon to Rome ; and the promife of 
canonical obedience, upon receiving their palls, was 
changed into an oath of allegiance, fuchas vaflals by the 
feudal laws were obliged to take to their princes. Gre¬ 
gory the Great conferred the pallium without fee or re¬ 
ward ; and, in a council held at Rome in 595, decreed 
that it fhould be given gratis; but it is well known, that 
in fucceeding times the grant of it became one of the 
chief funds of the popifli fee. Exorbitant fums were ex¬ 
acted not only for the palls that were fent to prefbyters, 
or private bifhops, whenTaifed to the archiepifcopal dig¬ 
nity, but likewife for thofe that were fent to archbiftiops, 
on their tranflation from one fee to another. For, by the 
canons, an archbifhop is not to carry away his.pall with 
him, but to demand a new one ; and his fuccefibr is not 
to make ufe of the pall which his predeceffor had left, but 
to apply to Rome for another. Boiver's Hijl. of the Popes, 
vol. iii. 
The pope pretends to the foie right of conferring the 
pallium ; though fome patriarchs have granted it to their 
luffragans, having firft received it themfelves from the 
Roman fee. Anciently, the pope ufed to fend the pal¬ 
lium to certain of his diocefan bifliops, on whom he laid 
a good part of his authority, and who were a kind of 
collaterals to him, as the patricii were to the emperors. 
By the popifli canon laws, a metropolitan, till he have 
received the pallium, cannot confecrate bifhops or 
churches; and he may not be called archbijhop, &c. Upon 
a tranflation, he muft have the pallium afrefli; and, till 
then, he cannot hold a fynod, nor perform any of his ar- 
chiepifeopal functions. 
The ufe of the pallium is reftrained to certain feafons 
and occafions; none but the pope having a right of wear¬ 
ing it always, and in all places. 
The pope fometimes fends it to bifliops of his own ac¬ 
cord ; and has fometimes given the right hereof to parti* 
cular churches. But, among the Greeks, all the bifliops 
wear the pallium. 
PALLMALL', f. [from the Lat,j»? 7 «, a ball, and mal¬ 
leus, a hammer.] A play in which a ball is {truck with a 
mallet through an iron ring. The mallet itfelf which 
{trikes the ball.—If one had paille-mails, it were good 
to play in this alley ; for it is of a reafonable good length, 
flraight and even. French Garden for Eng. Ladies to Walk 
in, 1621.—Several ftreets or walks, in France as well as in 
England, are called Maille, or Mall, from having been 
formerly ufed for this diverfion. Such places are to be 
found on the heights of St. Cloud near Pan's, and in the 
Champs Elyfees; and in London we have the Mall in St. 
James’s Park, and Pall Mall, where his majefty keeps his 
court. 
PAL'LOR,/. [Latin.] Palenefs.—There is fome little 
change of the complexion from a greater degree of pallor 
to a lefs, poflibly to fome little quickening of rednefs. Bp. 
Taylor's Artif, Hundjbme. 
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PAL'LU, a town of France, in the department of the 
Mayenne : ten miles weft of Alengon. 
PALLUAU', a town of France, in the department of 
the Vendee : fixteen miles eaft-foutli-eaft of Chalons, and 
ten north-weft of La Roche fur Yon. 
PALLUAU', a town of France, in the department of 
the Indre : fix miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Chatillon fur In- 
dre, and fixteen north-weft of Chateauroux. 
PALM, f. [Sax. from palma, Lat. or from irodKxpy, Gr. 
the hand.] The inner part of the hand ; the hand fpread 
out.—The word palm, meaning the hand, is retained in 
the French paume, the palm of the hand, and jcu de paume, 
a game where the ball is played with the palm of the 
hand. The Latin word palam, openly, in open view, 
bears analogy to the hand when fpread open. Gleanings in 
Etymology, MS. 
I try’d th’ infallible prophetic way, 
A poppy-leaf upon my palm to lay. Dryden. 
PALM, f. [ palme, Fr. from palmus, Lat. ] A meafure 
of length, the breadth of the palm of the hand ; about 
three inches.—The length of a foot is a fixth part of the 
ftature; a fpan, one eighth of it; a palm or hand’s-breadth, 
one twenty-fourth ; a thumb’s-breadth, or inch, one fe- 
venty-fecond ; a forefinger’s-breadth, one ninety-fixth. 
Holder fin Time. 
The Roman palmus was of two kinds. The great palm, 
taken from the length of the hand, anfwered to our 
fpan, and contained 12 fingers, digits, or fingers’-breadths, 
or 9 Roman inches, equal to about8£ Englifh. The /mail 
palm, taken from the breadth of the hand, contained 4 
digits or fingers, equal to about 3 Englifh inches. 
The Greek palm, or dor on, was of two kinds alfo. The 
fmall contained 4 fingers, equal to little more than three 
inches. The great contained 5 fingers. The double 
Greek palm, called dichas, contained alfo in proportion. 
The modern palm is different in different places where 
it obtains.—At Rome, the canna for woollens and filken 
fluffs is 78! Englifh inches, = 8 palms ; but the builder’s 
canna 87-57-f- Englilh inches, 2= 10 palms; at Naples, the 
palm is the 8th part of the canna, 22: lof Englilh inches ; 
at Genoa, the palm is 10 inches; at Oporto, it is 8'64 
inches. 
PALM, f. [palma, Lat. the palm of the hand ; becaufis 
the leaves of ieveral fpecies fpread out like a hand, the 
daftylian fingers of which are the dates.] A tree of 
which there are very many fpecies. See Palm.$ and 
Phcenix. 
Thou youngeft virgin, daughter of the Ikies, 
Whofe/)#/»($ new pluck’d from Paradife 
With fpreading branches more fublimely rife. Dryden. 
The palm is the emblem of viftory, becaufe it repr#- 
fents courage, whence victory arifes; for the palm- 
branch, the more you draw it down, the more it rifes 
up again, from its peculiar elafticity : 
Namur fubdu’d is England’s palm alone : 
The reft befieg’d, but we conftrain’d the town. Dryden, 
To PALM, v. a. To conceal in the palm of the hand, 
as jugglers.— Palming is held foul play amongft gamefters. 
Dryden. —They palm'd the Hck that loft the game. Prior. 
—To impofe by fraud.-—Moll White has made the country 
ring with feveral imaginary exploits palmed upon her. 
Addifon's SpcB, 
If not by feriptures, how can we be fure, 
Reply’d the panther, what tradition’s pure ? 
For you may palm upon us new for old. Dryden. 
To handle.—Frank carves very ill, yet will palm all the 
meats. Prior's Epigrums. —To ftroke with the hand. 
A injworth. 
PALM (JoTin-George), a learned German Lutheran 
divine, was born at Hanover in the year 1697. After 
purfuing his ftudies in different univerfities, duke Ati- 
guftus-William of Brunfvvick and Lunenburg placed 
him 
