Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Pali

Pali , noun

plural of Palus.

Pali , noun

[Ceylonese, from Sanskrit 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.