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immemorial 音标拼音: [ ,ɪməm'ɔriəl] a. 太古的,极古的,无法追忆的 太古的,极古的,无法追忆的 immemorial adj 1: long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history; " time immemorial" Immemorial \ Im` me* mo" ri* al\, a. [ Pref. im- not memorial: cf. F. imm[' e] morial.] Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial. " Immemorial elms." -- Tennyson. " Immemorial usage or custom." -- Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster] { Time immemorial} ( Eng. Law.), a time antedating ( legal) history, and beyond " legal memory" so called; formerly an indefinite time, but in 1276 this time was fixed by statute as the begining of the reign of Richard I. ( 1189). Proof of unbroken possession or use of any right since that date made it unnecessary to establish the original grant. In 1832 the plan of dating legal memory from a fixed time was abandoned and the principle substituted that rights which had been enjoyed for full twenty years ( or as against the crown thirty years) should not be liable to impeachment merely by proving that they had not been enjoyed before. [ 1913 Webster] 98 Moby Thesaurus words for " immemorial": acknowledged, admitted, age- old, ageless, ancient, antique, auld, ceaseless, coeternal, constant, continual, continuous, conventional, customary, dateless, early, elderly, endless, erstwhile, established, eternal, eterne, ever- being, ever- durable, ever- during, everlasting, everliving, fixed, folk, fore, former, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoary, incessant, indestructible, infinite, interminable, inveterate, late, legendary, long- established, long- standing, mythological, never- ceasing, never- ending, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, of long standing, of old, of the folk, of yore, olamic, old, old as Methuselah, old as history, old as time, old- time, olden, once, onetime, oral, past, perdurable, permanent, perpetual, prehistoric, prescriptive, previous, primeval, primitive, prior, quondam, received, recent, recognized, rooted, sempiternal, sometime, steady, then, time- honored, timeless, traditional, tried and true, true- blue, unceasing, understood, unending, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unremitting, unwritten, venerable, without end, worshipful
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