Definition of "palimpsestic" []

• Pertaining to or of the nature of a palimpsest; made into a palimpsest.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Our whole existence could be seen as a long progression of palimpsestic reality, where the old cultures, the old ways, are stripped away but continue to shine through in the ways we do things: our superstitions, our celebrations."
• "It is the palimpsestic notion of America as a kind of beacon."
• "Women from Jane Austen and Mary Shelley to Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson produced literary works that are in some sense palimpsestic, works whose surface designs conceal or obscure deeper, less accessible (and less socially acceptable) levels of meaning."