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To PA'LTER, v. a. To fquander.— To be a juftlce of 
the peace, as you are, and palter out your time i’the penal 
Ratines ; to hear the curious tenets controverted between 
a proteffant confiable and jefuit cobler ! Beaumont and 
F/et. Elder Brother. — Paltering the free and moneylefs 
power of difeipline with a carnal fatisfadlion by the purfe. 
Milton's Rcaf. of Ch. Government. 
PAL'TERCAMP, a town of Wefiphalia, in the bi- 
(liopric of Ofnabruck : fourteen miles fouth-fouth-eafi of 
Ofnabruck. 
PA'LT£RFR,yi An infincere dealer; a fliifter. 
PAL'TI, [Heb. flight.] A man’s name. 
PA'LTRINESS, f. [from paltry.'] The Rate of being 
paltry. 
PA'LTRY, adj. [poltron, Fr. a fcoundrel; poltrocca, a 
low whore, Ital. Dr. John fun. —Rather from the Su. Goth. 
^ pallor , rags ; or Tent, pall , a ferap, a fragment. Mr. H. 
Tooke confiders paltry as a participle, jointly with pol- 
tron; that is, formed of the Latin polliee truheos, having 
the thumb cut off. Div. of Parley, ii.25.26.—After all 
this learning, and a great deal more which has been 
poured out by Mr. Todd in his edition of Johnfon’s 
Diblionary, there is little doubt that paltry is a corrup¬ 
tion and contraction o fpanvrete, Fr. The truly idiomatic 
French tranflation of “It is a paltry thing” is undoubtedly 
C’ejl une pauvrete. “ He afted in a paltry manner 11 a 
fait des panvbetes. “ He had but a paltry (hop II n'avoit 
qu'une pauvre boutique. I11 f.iort, the French pauvre, in 
an oblique fenfe is exnbrly the fame as paltry in Englifh. 
MS. Gleanings in Etymology.] Sorry; worthlefs; de- 
fpicable; contemptible; meap.—A very diffionefi paltry 
boyq as appears in leaving his friend here in necelfity, 
and denying him. Shaltefpeare. 
Then turn your forces from this paltry fiege, 
And Rir them up againR a mightier talk. Shaltefpeare. 
Whofe compel! is paltry, and carried too late, 
Such hufbandry uleth that many do hate. Toffer. 
When fuch paltry Raves prefume 
To mix in treufon, if the plot lucceeds, 
They’re thrown neglebled by; but, if it fails, 
They’re fure to die like dogs. Addifon's Cato. 
PALTZ (New), a town of the States of New-York : 
thirteen miles fouth of Stockport. 
PALVARY'A, a town of Hindooflan, in Oude : thirty- 
two miles eaR of Kairahad. 
PALUD' (La), a town of France, in the department of 
the Drome: twelve miles north-north-w'ell of Orange, 
and five fouth of Montelimart. 
PALUDAMEN'TUM, J'. among the ancients, a gar¬ 
ment worn in time of war by the principal men of Rome, 
efpecially the generals, who were called for that reafon 
pclndati. The fokiiers, having only ihort coats, called 
fagum, were denominated fagati. 
' The pulitdainrnluni was open on the fides, coming down 
no lower than the navel, and had fltort Reeves. It was 
white, purple, or red, and fometimes black. Valerius 
Maximus remarks, it was an ill omen to Craffus, that t.hey 
crave him a black paludamentum : “ Pulluin ei traditum 
efi paludamentum, cum in prtelium euntibus album, aut 
purpureum, dari loleret.” Cornutus fays, the Romans 
wore the toga in peace, and the paludamentum in war. 
And hence the phrafe “ Togam paludamento mutavit.” 
Kennett fays, the old paludamentum of the generals was 
all fcarlet, only bordered with purple; and the ehlamys 
of the emperors was all purple, commonly beautified with 
a golden or embroidered border. See Chlamys, vol. iv. 
PALUDA'NUS (John), vernacularly Vanden Broech, 
a learned Flemilh divine and theological profefior, was a 
native of Mechlin, where he was born in the year 1566. 
He was educated at the univerfity of Louvain, where, 
after completing his philofophical courfe, he took the 
degree of M.A. in 1585. Afterwards he afiiduoufiy Rudied 
divinity and facred criticifm, under the inftruclions of 
the very-celebrated Michael Baius. During feyeral years 
PAM 
he filled the chair of profefior of eloquence at Falcon- 
college, and officiated at the fame time as parilh-prieR of 
St. Gertrude in that city. Afterwards he became incum¬ 
bent of the church of our Lady at Mechlin ; whence he 
removed, in 1602, to the living of St. Peter and St. Paul 
in the fame place. In the fame year he was created 
dobtor of divinity. In 1610 he returned to Louvain, 
where he was appointed canon and pafior of St. Peter’s, 
and nominated, at firfi profefior in ordinary of divinity, 
and afterwards profeffor-royal of facred literature. He 
was alfo made archprieR of the difiribt of Louvain. He 
died in 1630, in the fixty-fifth year of his age. He was 
the author of feveral works which are highly valued by 
zealous Catholics ; among which are, 1. Vindicite Theo¬ 
logies:, adverfus Verbi Dei Corruptelas; 1620 and 1622, 
2 vols. 8vo. confiding of an explication of almod all the 
texts of feripture quoted by ProteRants in refutation of 
the doblrines of the church of Rome, according to the 
order of the books in the Bible. 2. Apologeticus Mari- 
anus, 1623, 4to. in praife of the Virgin Mary, and at¬ 
tempting, by arguments drawn from the fathers, to efia- 
blifh her claim to the prerogatives which the Catholics 
a (bribe to her. 3. De Sandlo Ignatio Concio Sacra, 1623, 
8vo. 4. Officina Spiritualis facris Concionibus adaptata, 
1624, 4to. Valerii Andrea Bill. Belg. 
PALUD A'PIUM, f. in botany. See Apium. 
PALU'DE, a town of Turkifl; Armenia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Erzerum, the refidence of a prince in fome re- 
fpedfs independent of the grand fignior. Lat. 38. 35. N. 
Ion. 39. 14. E. 
PALUDIF'EROUS, adj. [from the Lat. pains, a marfh, 
and fero, to bear.] Producing marfhes. Cole. 
I’ALVERE'TO, a town of Naples, in Calabria Citra: 
ten miles eaR-north-eafi of Cofenza. 
PALUM'BINE, adj. [from palambus.] Belonging to a 
beautiful kind of pigeon, the ringdove. 
PALUM'BUS, /.’ The ringdove, a beautiful fpecies of 
pigeon. See Columka palumbus, vol. iv. p. 818. 
PA'LUS, f. A military exercife among the Romans, by 
which the young men prepared and qualified themfelves 
for real combat. The pains was a pillar, about fix feet 
high, fafiened into the ground : againR this the foldiers 
made an attack, aflaulting it in feveral different modes 
and attitudes; always taking care fo to manage their 
weapons, that, fuppofing it was areal enemy, they might 
not expofe any part of their body to be hurt, while they 
were Rriking their adverfary. Infiead of a fword, they 
ufed a rod or Rick. They likewile ran at the palus with 
lances, and threw javelins and darts at it, endeavouring 
to hit particular parts; and their fuccefs was a proof of 
their dexterity. 
PA'LUS MAiO'TIS. See Sea of Azof, vol. ii. 
PAL'WAL, a town of HindooRan : thirty-five miles 
fouth of Delhi. 
PA'LY, adj. [from pale.] Pale. Ufed only in poetry. 
Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips, 
With twenty thoufand kifles. Shaltejpeare. 
A dim gleam the paly lanthorn throws 
O’er the mid pavement. Gay. 
PA'LY, adj. in heraldry, is when an efcutcheon is di¬ 
vided into fix, eight, or ten divilions, pale-wife, i. e. by 
perpendicular lines drawn from the top to the bottom. 
Paly-Bendy is when the field is divided by perpen¬ 
dicular lines, which is called paly; and then, again, by 
diagonals eroding the former, from the dexter fide to the 
finifier, which is the bendy. 
PAM, Jl [probably from palm, victory ; as trump from 
triumph.] The knave of clubs : 
Ev’n mighty pam, that kings and queens o’erthrew, 
And mow’d down armies in the fights of loo. Pope. 
Our “ Etymological Gleaner” goes higher for the de¬ 
rivation of this word : Pantphilus, Lat. wa/2ipiAo;, Gr. 
“ one who loves every thing,” which pain may be fup- 
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