palimpsesticadj.
/ˌpalᵻm(p)ˈsɛstɪk/, U.S. /ˌpæləm(p)ˈsɛstɪk/ That is or involves a palimpsest; esp. having a form in which traces of an earlier form or forms can still be discerned. Also (in quot. 1836): that creates a palimpsest.
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1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 13 Discoveries..of Palimpsestic parchments had not yet furnished fresh matter for research.
1836 F. Mahony Songs of Horace in Reliques Father Prout (1859) i. 376 Thy MSS. have come down to us unmutilated by the pumicestone of palimpsestic monk.
1891 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Oct. 332 By some sort of palimpsestic process we see behind the pages and beneath the words, the piercing, truthful, but just eyes of the great teacher.
1966 S. R. Delany Babel-17 iv. ii. 180 He scratched a map on the green wall paint with his spur over the palimpsestic obscenities of two century's prisoners.
1995 Interzone Oct. 34/1 A strange palimpsestic residue of dozens of different people's conceptions of what a Judge Dredd movie ought to be like.
2002 Irish Times (Nexis) 27 July 57 The history of Freud in English is as murky and palimpsestic as the subject he sets out to describe, full of obscure efforts at clarity and rigorous attempts to render uncertainty.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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