Associations to the word «Palimpsest»
Noun
- Syriac
- Codex
- Sinai
- Manuscript
- Fragment
- Gospel
- Testament
- Text
- Layer
- Monastery
- Parchment
- Papyrus
- Vidal
- Writing
- Read
- Pliny
- Copy
- Verona
- Century
- Walters
- Crater
- Limited
- Page
- Cicero
- Imaging
- Museum
- Upper
- Memoir
- Memphis
- Tablet
- Disk
- Luke
- Nine
- Scholar
- Translation
- Commentary
- Trace
- Document
- Landscape
- Impact
- Saint
- Library
- Surface
- Reading
- Moon
- Re
- Technique
- Collection
- Drawing
- Book
- Work
- Author
- Feature
- Origin
- Remains
- Image
- Letter
- Analysis
- Leave
Adjective
Adverb
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Wiktionary
PALIMPSEST, 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.
PALIMPSEST, noun. (archaic) Monumental brasses that have been reused by engraving of the blank back side.
PALIMPSEST, noun. (astronomy) Circular features believed to be lunar craters that have been obliterated by later volcanic activity.
PALIMPSEST, noun. (geology) Geological features thought to be related to features or effects below the surface.
PALIMPSEST, noun. (computing) Memory that has been erased and re-written.
PALIMPSEST, noun. (cultural studies) The partial erasure of or superimposition on an older society or culture by a newer one.
PALIMPSEST, noun. Something bearing the traces of an earlier, erased form.
PALIMPSEST, verb. To scrape clean, as in parchment, for reuse.
PALIMPSEST, verb. On paper: to reuse, often by erasure or change of pen direction or color. Especially fueled by Earth Day.
Dictionary definition
PALIMPSEST, noun. A manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible.
Wise words
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.