time immemorial

English

Noun

time immemorial (usually uncountable, plural times immemorial)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Time that extends beyond memory or record.
    Synonym: time out of mind
    • 1870, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter XVII, in Lothair. […], volume III, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 177–178:
      My home is in the North of Palestine on the other side of Jordan, beyond the Sea of Galilee. My family has dwelt there from time immemorial, but they always loved this city, and have a legend that they dwelt occasionally within its walls, even in the days when Titus from that hill looked down upon the temple.
  2. (UK law, uncountable) Time before 6 July 1189.

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