palimpsest
IPA: pˈæɫɪmpsʌst
noun
- A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written.
- (archaic) Monumental brasses that have been reused by engraving of the blank back side.
- (astronomy) Circular features believed to be lunar craters that have been obliterated by later volcanic activity.
- (geology) Geological features thought to be related to features or effects below the surface.
- (computing) Memory that has been erased and re-written.
- (cultural studies) The partial erasure of or superimposition on an older society or culture by a newer one.
- Something bearing the traces of an earlier, erased form.
verb
- To scrape clean, as in parchment, for reuse.
- On paper: to reuse, often by erasure or change of pen direction or color. Especially fueled by Earth Day.
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Examples of "palimpsest" in Sentences
- Did he have access to the palimpsest
- It is a palimpsest, the upper text is in Arabic.
- The manuscript containing the text is a palimpsest.
- So rich a palimpsest is French civilization, so varied is
- The fragmentary state of the palimpsest leaves much in doubt.
- The manuscript containing the 'Skeireins' text is a palimpsest.
- The fragmentary state of the palimpsest leaves is much in doubt.
- The most famous palimpsest is probably the Archimedes Palimpsest.
- According to Gregory, it is an important palimpsest of the New Testament.
- The palimpsest of such channels allows the mining sequence to be inferred.
- The Archimedes Palimpsest is a palimpsest on parchment in the form of a codex.
- The parchment, known as a palimpsest, contains the only known copies of some of Archimedes' works.
- The graphical front-end for DeviceKit is called palimpsest and provides several nice management capabilities.
- An obliterated manuscript written over again is called a palimpsest, and the man who can restore and read it a paleographist.
- So an architectural palimpsest is the ghostly remains of other buildings or parts of buildings that are still apparent on existing buildings.
- The description of this granite palimpsest is best given in Mr. Petrie's own words, as written in his weekly report at the time of the discovery:
- It acts as a kind of palimpsest over which the literary writer might inscribe his/her own variations on "criminal" behavior and its sources in unruly human impulses.