Pa"li (?), n. [Ceylonese, fr. Skr. pāli row, line, series, applied to the series of
Buddhist sacred
texts.]
A dialect
descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc.
||Pa"li (?), n.,
pl. of Palus.
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