immemorial
immemorial
Definition
im·memo·rial (im′ə môr′ē əl)
im′·memo′·ri·ally adverb
immemorial
Synonyms
immemorial
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- custom: Inhabitants of a village or local fishermen may have a right over the adjacent foreshore acquired by immemorial custom.
- people: Forecasting Since time immemorial, people have sought to predict the future.
- time: From immemorial time there has been a manor house on Cadder estate.
- tradition: It opens with creation narratives from immemorial oral tradition but written down later.
- antiquity: In England we have: 39 Traditional Counties of immemorial antiquity.
- man: Since time immemorial man has caught fish and whales, but in the past three decades a rum situation has emerged.
Browse dictionary entries near immemorial
- Immelmann (turn)
- immedicable
- immediately
- immediate constituent
- immediate cause
- immediate
- immediacy
- immeasurable
- immaturity
- immature
- immense
- immensity
- immensurable
- immerge
- immerse
- immersed
- immersible
- immersion
- immersion heater
- immesh
