List of synonyms from "Paleolithic man" to synonyms from "palliation"


Discover all the synonyms available for the terms palimpsest, pallbearer, palinoding, palliate, paleology and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the synonyms associated with it.

Definition of the day : « palimpsest »

  • As in manuscript : noun book, script
  • As in tabula rasa : noun blank slate
  • As in parchment : noun material for writing
Example sentences :
  • His soul must be like a palimpsest with the record of nation on nation.
  • Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
  • I scanned a leaf particularly and saw that it was a palimpsest.
  • Extract from : « A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • Nature became for him a scroll, a palimpsest with daily mutations.
  • Extract from : « Green Fire » by Fiona Macleod
  • A palimpsest, now in the church chest, formerly at east end of nave.
  • Extract from : « A Comprehensive History of Norwich » by A. D. Bayne
  • He had corrected the palimpsest and recalled her as the Miss Webling whom he had met in London.
  • Extract from : « The Cup of Fury » by Rupert Hughes
  • The very lost races are a palimpsest to be deciphered by a seeing eye.
  • Extract from : « Bushido, the Soul of Japan » by Inazo Nitob
  • The letters, together with the other fragments in the palimpsest, were published at Rome in 1823.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 » by Various
  • It is easier to write on white paper than to make parchment ready for a palimpsest.
  • Extract from : « The Chief Periods of European History » by Edward A. Freeman
  • He is, and always has been, a sheath of varied and even incompatible possibilities, a palimpsest of inherited dispositions.
  • Extract from : « The World Set Free » by Herbert George Wells
  • The greater part of the palimpsest has, however, been deciphered and the text is now fairly complete.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 » by Various