immemorially, adv.
(ɪmɪˈmɔərɪəlɪ)
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an immemorial manner; from time immemorial; ‘time out of mind’; by immemorial prescription of usage.
| 1614 Selden Titles Hon. 38 Their own immemorially possest right. 1661 Boyle 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 Blackstone Comm. IV. xxxii. (1830) 404 This prerogative, being founded in mercy, and immemorially exercised by the crown. 1855 Milman Lat. Chr. iv. i. (1883) II. 164 Small, independent, and immemorially hostile tribes. |