ppl. a. [f. APPAL v. + -ED.]
† 1. Made pale or faint; enfeebled. Obs.
1577. St. Aug. Manuell, 33. To refresh my appalled sprights.
1616. Surflet & Markh., Countr. Farm, 349. To set in strength againe their feebled and appalled force.
† 2. Rendered flat or stale, as a fermented liquor. Obs., but see PALLED.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XXIII. i. If it be too weake and apalled, the way to revive it againe, is with Pepper. Ibid. (1634), I. 425. Wine will lose the strength, and become apalled in extremitie of cold.
3. Bereft of courage or self-possession at the sudden recognition of something dreadful; dismayed; also fig.
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., IV. v. 4. Giue with thy Trumpet a loud note that the appauled aire May pierce the head of the great Combatant.
1866. Kingsley, Herew., xvii. 208. Hereward sat down, silent and appalled.