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Definition of Palimpsest
1. 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.
Definition of Palimpsest
1. n. A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second.
Definition of Palimpsest
1. 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. Many historical texts have been recovered using ultraviolet light and other technologies to read the erased writing. ¹
2. Noun. (archaic) Monumental brasses that have been reused by engraving of the blank back side. ¹
3. Noun. (astronomy) Circular features believed to be lunar craters that have been obliterated by later volcanic activity. ¹
4. Noun. (geology) Geological features thought to be related to features or effects below the surface. ¹
5. Noun. (computing) Memory that has been erased and re-written. ¹
6. Noun. Something bearing the traces of an earlier, erased form. ¹
7. Verb. To scrape clean, as in parchment, for reuse. ¹
8. Verb. On paper: to reuse, often by erasure or change of pen direction or color. Especially fueled by Earth Day. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Palimpsest
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Palimpsest
Literary usage of Palimpsest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Confessions of an English Opium-eater: And Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey (1850)
"THE palimpsest. You know perhaps, masculine reader, better than I can tell you,
what is a palimpsest. Possibly you have one in your own library. ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The possibility of turning palimpsest manuscripts to account as a means of extending
... The first palimpsest editor was a German scholar, Dr. Paul Bruns, ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"The first palimpsest editor was a German scholar, Dr Paul Bruns, who having
discovered that one of the Vatican MSS. was a palimpsest, the effaced matter of ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The deciphering of a palimpsest may at times be accomplished merely by soaking
it in clear water; generally speaking, some chemical reagent is required, ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Rfl: Codex Crypt of errate n sis (late seventh century), a palimpsest fragment
containing II Cor. x¡, 9-19, published by Cozza in Sacrorum bibliorum ..."
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