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Word Meanings - IMMEMORIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Time immemorial , a time antedating history, and beyond

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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. Time immemorial , a time antedating 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. . 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 should not be liable to impeachment merely by proving that they had not been enjoyed before.

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  • PRIMORDIALLY
    At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.
  • ABORIGINALLY
    Primarily.
  • ANTIQUATION
    The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated. Beaumont.
  • PRIMEVALLY
    In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin.
  • OBSOLETENESS
    Indistinctness; want of development. (more info) 1. The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.
  • ANTIQUATED
    Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Ancient; old; antique; obsolete. See
  • OBSOLETE
    Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive. Syn. -- Ancient; antiquated; old-fashioned; antique; old; disused; neglected. See Ancient. (more info) 1. No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected;
  • ANTIQUENESS
    The quality of being antique; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship. We may discover something venerable in the antiqueness of the work. Addison.
  • NATIVE
    1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances
  • PRIMORDIAL
    A first principle or element.
  • NATIVE STEEL
    A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.
  • PRISTINE
    Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.
  • ANTIQUELY
    In an antique manner.
  • PRIMEVAL
    Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man. "This is the forest primeval." Longfellow. From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light. Keats.
  • ANTIQUE
    1. Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome. For the antique world excess and pride did hate. Spenser. 2. Old, as respects the present age, or a modern
  • ABORIGINALITY
    The quality of being aboriginal. Westm. Rev.
  • ANCIENTNESS
    The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
  • ANCIENTLY
    1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner.
  • ORIGINAL
    1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. His form had yet not lost
  • ABORIGINAL
    1. An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines. 2. An animal or a plant native to the region. It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands. Darwin.
  • ELIMINATIVE
    Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
  • NOMINATIVELY
    In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
  • EMANATIVE
    Issuing forth; effluent.
  • DOMINATIVE
    Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
  • REGNATIVE
    Ruling; governing.
  • COORDINATIVE
    Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
  • VERD ANTIQUE
    A mottled-green serpentine marble. A green porphyry called oriental verd antique.
  • DENOMINATIVE
    Connotative; as, a denominative name. 3. Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable. The least denominative part of time is a minute. Cocker. (more info) 1. Conferring a denomination or name.
  • GLUTINATIVE
    Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous.
  • CONGLUTINATIVE
    Conglutinant.
  • URINATIVE
    Provoking the flow of urine; uretic; diuretic. Bacon.
  • EMANATIVELY
    By an emanation.

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