immemoriallyadv.
/ɪmɪˈmɔːrɪəli/ In an immemorial manner; from time immemorial; ‘time out of mind’; by immemorial prescription of usage.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adverb] > from time immemorial
out of mind1387
immemorially1614
since Adam was a boy1722
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 38 Their own immemorially possest right.
1661 R. Boyle Some Consider. Style of Script. (1675) 99 The truth and authority of the Scriptures..hath been immemorially believed by the learned'st men in the world.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. (1830) xxxii. 404 This prerogative, being founded in mercy, and immemorially exercised by the crown.
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. i. 6 Small, independent, and immemorially hostile tribes.
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adv.1614- burse
- bursectomize
- bursectomized
- bursectomy
- burses
- burseu
- bursiculate
- bursiform
- bursitis
- bursitises
- burst
- burst a blood vessel
- burst a door, gate
- burst a person's bubble
- burst a person's eardrums
- burst a-crying
- burst a-weep
- burst acrying
- burst at the seams
- burst away
- burst aweep
- burst bonds, barriers
- burst down
- burst fall apart at the seams
- burst fall etc at the seams