(n.) A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second.
Example Sentences:
(1) He wrote in the memoir Palimpsest that he had more than 1,000 "sexual encounters" – nothing special, he added, compared with the pursuits of such peers as John F Kennedy and Tennessee Williams.
(2) But the way an area has been used over time, both above and below ground, can also be presented as a layered historical palimpsest, which can serve the purposes of archaeological justice and memory – as with ScanLAB’s Living Death Camps project with Forensic Architecture, on two concentration-camp sites in the former Yugoslavia.
(3) His two memoirs – Palimpsest and its sequel, Point To Point Navigation, published in 2006 – describe friendships with Eleanor Roosevelt, Princess Margaret and Leonard Bernstein.
(4) HarperCollins, which runs the 4th Estate imprint, said the crucial mistake happened when a small Scottish typesetter, Palimpsest, sent "the last but one version" of the book file to the printers.
(5) And Vidal more or less admitted it himself, writing in his memoir Palimpsest that he was "attracted to adolescent males".
(6) Among individual phenomena the following are important: in stage I regular contact with the drug (04) and increased tolerance (05), in stage II secret drinking (2) and frequency of palimpsests (7), in stage III signs derived mostly from rationalization and alcohol-centered behaviour and finally in stage IV impaired thinking (33), reduced tolerance (37) and possible ethic degradation (32).
(7) He claimed in his memoir Palimpsest that by the age of 25 he had had more than 1,000 sexual encounters with men and women, tending towards what he called "same-sex sex".
(8) In Palimpsest he recalled finding, "to my surprise", that Kerouac was circumcised.
(9) The man who was recording our podcast in the other room was listening through the wall; he said the word "palimpsest" (I remember it, in my earphone).
(10) Timbuktu is a palimpsest in the sand that proves otherwise.
(11) He published a gossipy but moving memoir, Palimpsest (1995), which cut back and forth between the author's present, mostly in Ravello, and his first four frenetic decades.
(12) Loss of control (8) in the reported form is closer to the onset of development and the frequency of palimpsests (7) develops later, usually is overlaps with prolonged drunkedness (31).
(13) At the onset of development dominates "non-adaptive" drinking evaluated frequently as loss of control and in the more advanced stage the constant incidence of palimpsests causes frequent intoxication and declining tolerance.
Vellum
Definition:
(n.) A fine kind of parchment, usually made from calfskin, and rendered clear and white, -- used as for writing upon, and for binding books.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of course it doesn't "die" with one Elizabeth R on the bottom of some vellum.
(2) The difficult question now is how to sort out these remaining issues without the crushing time pressure that leads to botched drafting which, in a royal charter world, become inscribed on vellum and extremely difficult to modify.
(3) The portrait drawing, in graphite on vellum, had been in a private collection for years, and was being auctioned as an "imaginary portrait" of Austen, with "Miss Jane Austin" written on the back.
(4) These are tough times requiring cuts all round, including economies in new ideas: new ideas tend to cost new money, or they are rarely worth the vellum they are written on.
(5) They included Sir Peter Tapsell, now father of the Commons, whose grandiloquent style of speech prompted Hoggart to suggest that monks must be writing down his every word on vellum.
(6) However, when her body is found, she is holding a piece of crumpled vellum on which are written the words: 'I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and I bear witness that Mohammed is His messenger.'
(7) Nor should the “in” lobby pretend this insignificant little list changes anything worth the vellum it’s written on .
(8) But he added that the pressure to get legislation to underpin a new regulatory regime through before the parliamentary session ends in May could lead to a "botched drafting" with a royal charter "inscribed on vellum and extremely difficult to modify".