immemorial

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adjective

extending back beyond memory, record, or knowledge: from time immemorial.

Origin:
1595–1605; < Medieval Latin immemoriālis. See im-², memorial

Related forms

im·me·mo·ri·al·ly, adverb

Synonyms
timeless, ancient, ageless, olden.

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immemorial (ˌɪmɪˈmɔːrɪəl)

—*adj*
	originating in the distant past; ancient (postpositive in the phrase time immemorial)

[C17: from Medieval Latin immemoriālis, from Latin im- (not) + memoriamemory]

imme'morially

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

immemorial

c.1600, from Fr. immémorial (16c.) "old beyond memory," from M.L. immemorialis, from in- "not" + memorialis (see memorial). Something immemorial is ancient beyond memory; something immemorable (1550s) is not memorable.

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Idioms & Phrases

immemorial

see time immemorial.

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Example sentences

Since time immemorial, people have left their countries in search of a better

life for themselves and their families.

Since time immemorial, would-be aviators have tried to fly by mimicking birds

and bees.

For time immemorial, humanity has strived to have an intimate relationship with

this alternate experiential reality.

From time immemorial, they have been formed by wood combustion.

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"The secret affinity between gambling and the desert: the intensity of gambling reinforced by the presence of the desert all around the town. The air-conditioned freshness of the gaming rooms, as against the radiant heat outside. The challenge of all the artificial lights to the violence of the sun's rays. Night of gambling sunlit on all sides; the glittering darkness of these rooms in the middle of the desert. Gambling itself is a desert form, inhuman, uncultured, initiatory, a challenge to the natural economy of value, a crazed activity on the fringes of exchange. But it too has a strict limit and stops abruptly; its boundaries are exact, its passion knows no confusion. Neither the desert nor gambling are open areas; their spaces are finite and concentric, increasing in intensity toward the interior, toward a central point, be it the spirit of gambling or the heart of the desert—a privileged, immemorial space, where things lose their shadow, where money loses its value, and where the extreme rarity of traces of what signals to us there leads men to seek the instantaneity of wealth."

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