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Definition of Immemorial
1. Adjective. Long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history. "Time immemorial"
Definition of Immemorial
1. a. Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial.
Definition of Immemorial
1. Adjective. That is beyond memory; ancient. ¹
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Definition of Immemorial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Immemorial
Literary usage of Immemorial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Nations; Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel (1863)
"fti • • i rial, because it is founded on immemorial possession, — that is, on a
possession, the origin of which is unknown, or so deeply involved in ..."
2. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1879)
"The oldest privileges of the English towns are immemorial ; they are part of the
common heritage of the nation. The customs of a town were no more the grant ..."
3. The Scots Digest of Scots Appeals in the House of Lords from 1707 and of the by Robert Candlish Henderson, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1908)
"28 June 1617, and certain feudal titles, and immemorial possession, that it had
a good title to insist, although the statute had been rescinded (but the ..."
4. The Lancet (1842)
"Tbc other three classes he supposes to have ei- isted from time immemorial, and
to be car- able without the aid of mercury. But as I shall have frequently ..."
5. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"... The grand and special performance of the mummers from time immemorial, has
been the representation of a species of ..."
6. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"(aa) That they be immemorial.—That it have been used so long, that the memory of
man runneth-not to the contrary. So that, if anyone can show the beginning ..."
7. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharwood, Barron Field (1866)
"... when a person's ancestors have erected a convenience of that sort for the
benefit of the neighbourhood, upon an agreement (proved by immemorial custom) ..."
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