Definition of palimpsest in English:

palimpsest

noun ˈpalɪm(p)sɛstˈpæləm(p)ˌsɛst

1A manuscript or piece of writing material on which later writing has been superimposed on effaced earlier writing.
Example sentencesExamples
- By going back to journal entries in which I initially recorded some of the events that surfaced in the ‘written’ writing, I was able to locate an initial palimpsest, or precipitate, of the writing.
- These palimpsests are what I should like to examine, the fused layers the two authors traded.
- Some people used old books as the basis of their scrapbook, leading to a palimpsest of original text and jumbled scraps, with columns overlapping columns and sentences running together.
- Are there palimpsests by Richard Burton buried under a heap of raddi somewhere, waiting to be discovered and auctioned?
- An anonymous private collector who bought the palimpsest for $2 million at auction in 1998 has loaned the manuscript to the Walters Art Museum and is funding the studies.
- The buyer allowed the palimpsest (a scraped and overwritten parchment) to be conserved, photographed, and displayed at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore.
- In 1906 the Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg discovered the palimpsest in a monastery in Istanbul and correctly identified the prayer-enshrouded text as the lost Method of Archimedes.
- It produced excellent results on palimpsests, cancellations, and erasures due to damnatio memoriae, and on disintegrating surfaces where the ink has settled deep into the fibres.
1. 1.1 Something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form.
  Sutton Place is a palimpsest of the taste of successive owners
  Example sentencesExamples
  London is a palimpsest: a parchment that has been over-written, time and again, by successive events in its chequered history.
  Structure, services, surveyor's marks, and post-construction graffiti are overlaid as the most recent inscriptions on the palimpsest of the building.
  At least twenty of these are palimpsests, painted over other inscriptions in Montaigne's time, for a total of seventy-four inscriptions.
  The congealed acrylic surfaces with their oxymoronic textures and their occasionally violent collisions of color were yielding to a graphic attenuation, thick palimpsests replaced by bleeding overlays.
  The effect is like a surrealist making a palimpsest out of a mannerist piece of art.
  Every city is an urban palimpsest, a used parchment covered with the fragmentary scrawls of its own past.
  It was in effect a palimpsest of the best of previous translations, corrected and winnowed through almost a hundred years of development.
  In subterranean passages, where sedimentation rates are extremely low, endogenous processes are the primary sediment source, and archaeologists must identify artifact palimpsests on ancient surfaces.
  Following poems develop a manner of writing which relies heavily on language as a palimpsest of attitudes and learned response so as to undermine these.
  The paintings have the appearance of palimpsests, with rubbed-out passages, and residues of paint and turpentine streaming down the canvas.
  In particular, the research team is interested in the temporal span of mining activity in the cave and identification of chert testing locations and artifact palimpsests.
  And while this conflated, multilayered time originates from a racially specific experience, Ellison hints that the continuity implied by the palimpsest may ultimately transcend racial boundaries.
  What the project has found is that there never was a unitary pagan past; instead there is a palimpsest of myths and legends, places and landscapes, changing and continuing.
  It also reflects the widespread discovery that nothing is so boring and oppressive as the monothematic Modernist masterplan, and that most real landscapes are palimpsests recording layers of history and changes of mind.
  The point is that ‘reading’ and design are but two sides of the same coin, involving the identification of layers in the palimpsest before overwriting can take place.
  Deep cave environments and their slow sedimentation rates offer their own unique challenges, particularly the isolation of artifact palimpsests and their association with ancient surfaces.
  Thus, all but the youngest landscapes are palimpsests, written over by a variety of successive or alternating sets of climate-related processes.
  In each period, too, the arguments advanced by park advocates reflected changing perceptions of society's major problems so that park landscapes became cultural palimpsests as new features were added.
  In terms of process, I see my canvases as palimpsests, surfaces that reveal their past and present layers.
  The resulting silver, black, white and sepia images are multilayered palimpsests whose billowing blobs of form hover, sometimes uncomfortably, within the pictorial arena.

Derivatives

palimpsestic

adjective

American critics like Gates have used the metaphor of a ‘silent second text’ to describe the intertextual, palimpsestic dialogue between historically significant works of African American fiction.
Example sentencesExamples
- Her statement suggests that the wall and her pictures weave a kind of palimpsestic image-memory around her, informing her when she is not looking at them.
- Clifton's palimpsestic rewriting of Whitman in which relationships, not the individual, have primacy, is finally able to bring this family identity into American literature.
- The palimpsestic jumble created by the network of pedestrian acts in the city, ultimately leaves the detective suspended at the surface, as if the city space were indeed flat.
- A second phrase looks backward to another bit of palimpsestic anachronism.

Origin

Mid 17th century: via Latin from Greek palimpsēstos, from palin 'again' + psēstos 'rubbed smooth'.

Definition of palimpsest in US English:

palimpsest

nounˈpaləm(p)ˌsestˈpæləm(p)ˌsɛst

1A manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.
Example sentencesExamples
- The buyer allowed the palimpsest (a scraped and overwritten parchment) to be conserved, photographed, and displayed at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore.
- It produced excellent results on palimpsests, cancellations, and erasures due to damnatio memoriae, and on disintegrating surfaces where the ink has settled deep into the fibres.
- These palimpsests are what I should like to examine, the fused layers the two authors traded.
- By going back to journal entries in which I initially recorded some of the events that surfaced in the ‘written’ writing, I was able to locate an initial palimpsest, or precipitate, of the writing.
- Some people used old books as the basis of their scrapbook, leading to a palimpsest of original text and jumbled scraps, with columns overlapping columns and sentences running together.
- In 1906 the Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg discovered the palimpsest in a monastery in Istanbul and correctly identified the prayer-enshrouded text as the lost Method of Archimedes.
- An anonymous private collector who bought the palimpsest for $2 million at auction in 1998 has loaned the manuscript to the Walters Art Museum and is funding the studies.
- Are there palimpsests by Richard Burton buried under a heap of raddi somewhere, waiting to be discovered and auctioned?
1. 1.1 Something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form.
  Sutton Place is a palimpsest of the taste of successive owners
  Example sentencesExamples
  In particular, the research team is interested in the temporal span of mining activity in the cave and identification of chert testing locations and artifact palimpsests.
  In subterranean passages, where sedimentation rates are extremely low, endogenous processes are the primary sediment source, and archaeologists must identify artifact palimpsests on ancient surfaces.
  The congealed acrylic surfaces with their oxymoronic textures and their occasionally violent collisions of color were yielding to a graphic attenuation, thick palimpsests replaced by bleeding overlays.
  Every city is an urban palimpsest, a used parchment covered with the fragmentary scrawls of its own past.
  Structure, services, surveyor's marks, and post-construction graffiti are overlaid as the most recent inscriptions on the palimpsest of the building.
  And while this conflated, multilayered time originates from a racially specific experience, Ellison hints that the continuity implied by the palimpsest may ultimately transcend racial boundaries.
  Thus, all but the youngest landscapes are palimpsests, written over by a variety of successive or alternating sets of climate-related processes.
  It was in effect a palimpsest of the best of previous translations, corrected and winnowed through almost a hundred years of development.
  The resulting silver, black, white and sepia images are multilayered palimpsests whose billowing blobs of form hover, sometimes uncomfortably, within the pictorial arena.
  Deep cave environments and their slow sedimentation rates offer their own unique challenges, particularly the isolation of artifact palimpsests and their association with ancient surfaces.
  In terms of process, I see my canvases as palimpsests, surfaces that reveal their past and present layers.
  The paintings have the appearance of palimpsests, with rubbed-out passages, and residues of paint and turpentine streaming down the canvas.
  It also reflects the widespread discovery that nothing is so boring and oppressive as the monothematic Modernist masterplan, and that most real landscapes are palimpsests recording layers of history and changes of mind.
  The point is that ‘reading’ and design are but two sides of the same coin, involving the identification of layers in the palimpsest before overwriting can take place.
  The effect is like a surrealist making a palimpsest out of a mannerist piece of art.
  Following poems develop a manner of writing which relies heavily on language as a palimpsest of attitudes and learned response so as to undermine these.
  What the project has found is that there never was a unitary pagan past; instead there is a palimpsest of myths and legends, places and landscapes, changing and continuing.
  At least twenty of these are palimpsests, painted over other inscriptions in Montaigne's time, for a total of seventy-four inscriptions.
  London is a palimpsest: a parchment that has been over-written, time and again, by successive events in its chequered history.
  In each period, too, the arguments advanced by park advocates reflected changing perceptions of society's major problems so that park landscapes became cultural palimpsests as new features were added.

Origin

Mid 17th century: via Latin from Greek palimpsēstos, from palin ‘again’ + psēstos ‘rubbed smooth’.

单词	palimpsest
释义	Definition of palimpsest in English: palimpsest noun ˈpalɪm(p)sɛstˈpæləm(p)ˌsɛst 1A manuscript or piece of writing material on which later writing has been superimposed on effaced earlier writing. Example sentencesExamples By going back to journal entries in which I initially recorded some of the events that surfaced in the ‘written’ writing, I was able to locate an initial palimpsest, or precipitate, of the writing. These palimpsests are what I should like to examine, the fused layers the two authors traded. Some people used old books as the basis of their scrapbook, leading to a palimpsest of original text and jumbled scraps, with columns overlapping columns and sentences running together. Are there palimpsests by Richard Burton buried under a heap of raddi somewhere, waiting to be discovered and auctioned? An anonymous private collector who bought the palimpsest for $2 million at auction in 1998 has loaned the manuscript to the Walters Art Museum and is funding the studies. The buyer allowed the palimpsest (a scraped and overwritten parchment) to be conserved, photographed, and displayed at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. In 1906 the Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg discovered the palimpsest in a monastery in Istanbul and correctly identified the prayer-enshrouded text as the lost Method of Archimedes. It produced excellent results on palimpsests, cancellations, and erasures due to damnatio memoriae, and on disintegrating surfaces where the ink has settled deep into the fibres. 1.1 Something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form. Sutton Place is a palimpsest of the taste of successive owners Example sentencesExamples London is a palimpsest: a parchment that has been over-written, time and again, by successive events in its chequered history. Structure, services, surveyor's marks, and post-construction graffiti are overlaid as the most recent inscriptions on the palimpsest of the building. At least twenty of these are palimpsests, painted over other inscriptions in Montaigne's time, for a total of seventy-four inscriptions. The congealed acrylic surfaces with their oxymoronic textures and their occasionally violent collisions of color were yielding to a graphic attenuation, thick palimpsests replaced by bleeding overlays. The effect is like a surrealist making a palimpsest out of a mannerist piece of art. Every city is an urban palimpsest, a used parchment covered with the fragmentary scrawls of its own past. It was in effect a palimpsest of the best of previous translations, corrected and winnowed through almost a hundred years of development. In subterranean passages, where sedimentation rates are extremely low, endogenous processes are the primary sediment source, and archaeologists must identify artifact palimpsests on ancient surfaces. Following poems develop a manner of writing which relies heavily on language as a palimpsest of attitudes and learned response so as to undermine these. The paintings have the appearance of palimpsests, with rubbed-out passages, and residues of paint and turpentine streaming down the canvas. In particular, the research team is interested in the temporal span of mining activity in the cave and identification of chert testing locations and artifact palimpsests. And while this conflated, multilayered time originates from a racially specific experience, Ellison hints that the continuity implied by the palimpsest may ultimately transcend racial boundaries. What the project has found is that there never was a unitary pagan past; instead there is a palimpsest of myths and legends, places and landscapes, changing and continuing. It also reflects the widespread discovery that nothing is so boring and oppressive as the monothematic Modernist masterplan, and that most real landscapes are palimpsests recording layers of history and changes of mind. The point is that ‘reading’ and design are but two sides of the same coin, involving the identification of layers in the palimpsest before overwriting can take place. Deep cave environments and their slow sedimentation rates offer their own unique challenges, particularly the isolation of artifact palimpsests and their association with ancient surfaces. Thus, all but the youngest landscapes are palimpsests, written over by a variety of successive or alternating sets of climate-related processes. In each period, too, the arguments advanced by park advocates reflected changing perceptions of society's major problems so that park landscapes became cultural palimpsests as new features were added. In terms of process, I see my canvases as palimpsests, surfaces that reveal their past and present layers. The resulting silver, black, white and sepia images are multilayered palimpsests whose billowing blobs of form hover, sometimes uncomfortably, within the pictorial arena. Derivatives palimpsestic adjective American critics like Gates have used the metaphor of a ‘silent second text’ to describe the intertextual, palimpsestic dialogue between historically significant works of African American fiction. Example sentencesExamples Her statement suggests that the wall and her pictures weave a kind of palimpsestic image-memory around her, informing her when she is not looking at them. Clifton's palimpsestic rewriting of Whitman in which relationships, not the individual, have primacy, is finally able to bring this family identity into American literature. The palimpsestic jumble created by the network of pedestrian acts in the city, ultimately leaves the detective suspended at the surface, as if the city space were indeed flat. A second phrase looks backward to another bit of palimpsestic anachronism. Origin Mid 17th century: via Latin from Greek palimpsēstos, from palin 'again' + psēstos 'rubbed smooth'. Definition of palimpsest in US English: palimpsest nounˈpaləm(p)ˌsestˈpæləm(p)ˌsɛst 1A manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain. Example sentencesExamples The buyer allowed the palimpsest (a scraped and overwritten parchment) to be conserved, photographed, and displayed at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. It produced excellent results on palimpsests, cancellations, and erasures due to damnatio memoriae, and on disintegrating surfaces where the ink has settled deep into the fibres. These palimpsests are what I should like to examine, the fused layers the two authors traded. By going back to journal entries in which I initially recorded some of the events that surfaced in the ‘written’ writing, I was able to locate an initial palimpsest, or precipitate, of the writing. Some people used old books as the basis of their scrapbook, leading to a palimpsest of original text and jumbled scraps, with columns overlapping columns and sentences running together. In 1906 the Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg discovered the palimpsest in a monastery in Istanbul and correctly identified the prayer-enshrouded text as the lost Method of Archimedes. An anonymous private collector who bought the palimpsest for $2 million at auction in 1998 has loaned the manuscript to the Walters Art Museum and is funding the studies. Are there palimpsests by Richard Burton buried under a heap of raddi somewhere, waiting to be discovered and auctioned? 1.1 Something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form. Sutton Place is a palimpsest of the taste of successive owners Example sentencesExamples In particular, the research team is interested in the temporal span of mining activity in the cave and identification of chert testing locations and artifact palimpsests. In subterranean passages, where sedimentation rates are extremely low, endogenous processes are the primary sediment source, and archaeologists must identify artifact palimpsests on ancient surfaces. The congealed acrylic surfaces with their oxymoronic textures and their occasionally violent collisions of color were yielding to a graphic attenuation, thick palimpsests replaced by bleeding overlays. Every city is an urban palimpsest, a used parchment covered with the fragmentary scrawls of its own past. Structure, services, surveyor's marks, and post-construction graffiti are overlaid as the most recent inscriptions on the palimpsest of the building. And while this conflated, multilayered time originates from a racially specific experience, Ellison hints that the continuity implied by the palimpsest may ultimately transcend racial boundaries. Thus, all but the youngest landscapes are palimpsests, written over by a variety of successive or alternating sets of climate-related processes. It was in effect a palimpsest of the best of previous translations, corrected and winnowed through almost a hundred years of development. The resulting silver, black, white and sepia images are multilayered palimpsests whose billowing blobs of form hover, sometimes uncomfortably, within the pictorial arena. Deep cave environments and their slow sedimentation rates offer their own unique challenges, particularly the isolation of artifact palimpsests and their association with ancient surfaces. In terms of process, I see my canvases as palimpsests, surfaces that reveal their past and present layers. The paintings have the appearance of palimpsests, with rubbed-out passages, and residues of paint and turpentine streaming down the canvas. It also reflects the widespread discovery that nothing is so boring and oppressive as the monothematic Modernist masterplan, and that most real landscapes are palimpsests recording layers of history and changes of mind. The point is that ‘reading’ and design are but two sides of the same coin, involving the identification of layers in the palimpsest before overwriting can take place. The effect is like a surrealist making a palimpsest out of a mannerist piece of art. Following poems develop a manner of writing which relies heavily on language as a palimpsest of attitudes and learned response so as to undermine these. What the project has found is that there never was a unitary pagan past; instead there is a palimpsest of myths and legends, places and landscapes, changing and continuing. At least twenty of these are palimpsests, painted over other inscriptions in Montaigne's time, for a total of seventy-four inscriptions. London is a palimpsest: a parchment that has been over-written, time and again, by successive events in its chequered history. In each period, too, the arguments advanced by park advocates reflected changing perceptions of society's major problems so that park landscapes became cultural palimpsests as new features were added. Origin Mid 17th century: via Latin from Greek palimpsēstos, from palin ‘again’ + psēstos ‘rubbed smooth’.
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