time immemorial: Meaning and Definition of

time' immemo'rial

Pronunciation: [key]
  1. Also calledtime in the distant past beyond memory or record: Those carvings have been there from time immemorial.
  2. time beyond legal memory, fixed by statute in England as prior to the beginning of the reign of Richard I (1189).
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