How To Use Immemorial In A Sentence

Croi from time immemorial had been renowned for its devout and strict observance of papistic rites and ceremonies; the Counts of Nassau had gone over to the new sect -- sufficient reasons why Philip of Croi, Duke of Arschot, should prefer a party which placed him the most decidedly in opposition to the Prince of Orange. History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 02
Our woodcut is taken from the improved model produced by Mr. Stokey; no doubt Mr. Rarey took the idea of his gag-bit from the wooden gag, which has been in use among country farriers from time immemorial, to keep a horse's mouth while they are performing the cruel and useless operation of firing for lampas. A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid
Like many men since time immemorial, he is living more in hope than expectation.
Sustainability is an old term that has appeared in many guises from time immemorial.
From time immemorial our human race has been called a race of wanderers and wayfarers, a restless people forever setting forth in pursuit of a better life.

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They have been in possession of the island for time immemorial.
From time immemorial, in hot and rainy lands, a hypaethral court, either round or square, surrounded by a covered portico, was used for the double purpose of church and mart, — a place where God and Mammon were worshipped turn by turn. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Though far remote from the ivy chaplet on Wisdom's glorious brow, yet his stump of withered birch inculcates a lesson of virtue, by reminding us, that we should take heed to our steps in our journeyings through the wilderness of life; and, so far as in him lies, he helps us to do so, and by the exercise of a very catholic faith, looks for his reward to the value he supposes us to entertain for that virtue which, from time immemorial, has been in popular parlance classed as next to godliness. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852
No one actually knows when sledging started, but since time immemorial disparaging remarks have been part of the sport in general - and cricket in particular.
He's actually turned down groups we've been contributing to from time immemorial. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
The Government must consider giving financial aid to rural traditional medicine centres which have been operating in the State since time immemorial.
It was in fact a kind of nuptial hymn, which, taking its start from the thought of nature as the universal mother, celebrated the preliminary pairing and mating together of all fresh things, in the hot and genial spring-time -- the immemorial nuptials of the soul of spring itself and the brown earth; and was full of a delighted, mystic sense of what passed between them in that fantastic marriage. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1
All religions are created by man, including the concept of God, since time immemorial. Dr T.P.Chia
From time immemorial despots have imprisoned their opponents under particularly cruel conditions; they have tortured them, dishonored them, debased and executed them.
How, I wonder, through the immemorial ages, and why, did this particular bird develop its strange determination always, where possible, to use a snake's cast-off skin in building its nest?
That the Japanese, in thrall to China from time immemorial, should try to subjugate their vast neighbor seemed an inversion of the cosmic order.
Wall-gilliflower, has been cultivated in this country almost from time immemorial, for its fragrance and bright colouring. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
The immemorial mile of cheap foul doggeries remained, but business was dull with them; the multitudes of poison-swilling Irishmen had departed, and in their places were a few scattering handfuls of ragged negroes, some drinking, some drunk, some nodding, others asleep. Life on the Mississippi
Paradoxically, this immemorial and ubiquitous trauma is perpetuating the dream of an eternal and perfectly just, that is, paradisical life.
The elder Edda, which is the fountain of the mythology, consists of old songs and ballads, which had come down from an immemorial past in the mouths of the people, but were first collected and committed to writing by Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology
From time immemorial our human race has been called a race of wanderers and wayfarers, a restless people forever setting forth in pursuit of a better life.
The distinctive human problem from time immemorial has been the need to spiritualize human life, to lift it onto a special immortal plane, beyond the cycles of life and death that characterize all other organisms. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
On the one hand, he conceded that the old rites had the weight of immemorial tradition behind them, and no doubt propitiated malevolent spirits.
By the will of God, these days add to your immemorial past, your share of glory and victory.
The drug- induced paradise of ecstasy and hallucination has enslaved the humankind since time immemorial, and more and more people are falling victim to the psychedelic pills. Dr T.P.Chia
California born and finished, could compete with the cream of bulls corn-fed in Iowa or imported overseas from the immemorial home of Short Horns. CHAPTER I
From time immemorial slaves have manifested a desire to escape their bondage.
From time immemorial, war has gone along with fiscal irresponsibility.
After his arrival, man's everlasting desire for not departing and staying forever in this world is his perpetual passion from time immemorial.
Jujutsu can trace its origins back to the ancient age of the kami and time immemorial as a unique Japanese martial art.
Her family had farmed that land since time immemorial.
In its crude form the bark of the chinchona tree had been used for its medical properties since times immemorial. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)
This isn't to say that the artists who broke with their immemorial tradition did so all at once, or that, having done so, they created nothing beautiful.
From time immemorial, Tongas have viewed cattle rearing as their only source of wealth and in the past it was difficult for them to imagine that their valuable domestic animal would vanish through uncontrolled circumstances.
Make right the immemorial infamies, perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes? Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans"
The origin of the living entities' bondage in matter goes back to time immemorial.
A bill to establish a farm modus, setting forth the abuttals of the farm, and averring that the mo - dus had immemorially been paid for the said farm, is sufficient, without expressly averring it to be an ancient farm. Reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of exchequer, from Easter term 32 George III. to [Trinity term 37 George III.] ... both inclusive. [1792-1797]
She said it was the immemorial custom of the villagers to have a feast after the harvesting.
-- Feudal seignior, and suzerain, that is to say, commander-in-chief of the great resident army whose willing forces had served to reconstruct society in the ninth century, the King, through the remotest of his origins -- that is to say, through the immemorial confusion of sovereignty with property -- was the owner of France, the same as an individual owns his private domain. [ The Modern Regime, Volume 1
It is true that he hints at marshes near Cotrone, and, indeed, large tracts of south Italy are described as marshy by the ancients; they may well have harboured the anopheles mosquito from time immemorial, but it does not follow that they were malarious. Old Calabria
Zola's cheese shop was aptly set in the new market halls, built in the 1850s, for it depicted modern commerce and not immemorial rural custom.
Having retained its aura of mystique and history since time immemorial, it has become a restful corner in our hectic world.
Foes say farmers have done agricultural research without patents since time immemorial, creating the germ plasm used in laboratories today. The Scientist
He had come a long way with the Elder, as had his family from time immemorial.
Atlantis, so hints came to me steadily that Ponape and Lele and their basalt bulwarked islets were the last points of the slowly sunken western land clinging still to the sunlight, and had been the last refuge and sacred places of the rulers of that race which had lost their immemorial home under the rising waters of the The Moon Pool
All religions are created by man, including the concept of God, since time immemorial. Dr T.P.Chia
Very few people have ever seen these shy, utterly beguiling creatures on their immemorial trek.
From time immemorial, or at least since the '50s, teens have been assembling scrapbooks and collections to celebrate their pop icons.
The isthmus was famous for the canal (3,950 feet in length) which Xerxes had dug across it, in order to avoid the perilous turning of the limestone peak immemorially known as Mount Athos, in which the small peninsula ends, and which rises to a height of some 6,000 feet. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
It has remained virtually unchanged since time immemorial.
From time immemorial we have been passing through many, many species of life.
Since time immemorial man has caught fish and whales, but in the past three decades a rum situation has emerged.
In the Close of Durdlebury, greenswarded, silent, sentinelled by immemorial elms that guard the dignified Gothic dwellings of the cathedral dignitaries, was James Marmaduke Trevor born. The Rough Road
Among the canons of Nicæa (325) that do not specifically deal with the ordinary ecclesiastical provinces, canons 6 and 7 confirm the rights accorded by immemorial custom to certain great Churches, such as Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, and the other eparchies. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Their crucial years between adolescence and adulthood are spent in some of the most moving buildings in England, surrounded by beautiful gardens and immemorial traditions.
But as it has been the custom from time immemorial for rewards to be offered for shedders of human blood, and many men whose respectability cannot be questioned have received rewards for services so rendered, I think that I shall pocket my share, and consider all three of you very weak and spleeny not to do the same. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia
In "the Book of Songs", there are multiple primogenitor's images in Huaxia nations. Their marriages reflect the marital system of immemorial miscegenation and monogamy.
Rome and the Campagna have been afflicted, from time immemorial, by two plagues, mendicity and brigandage, which after having infected the district with more or less violence for nearly twenty centuries, have been finally thoroughly extirpated by the Italian national government, and relegated to a place among the legends of the past.
Water wheels of various forms for this purpose have been used from time immemorial in Europe, Asia and Egypt, where the record gives examples of wheels of the noria class from 30 to 90 feet in diameter; the term Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891
It is legendary in its use as a magical cure-all and has been used as food or a remedy since time immemorial.
Her family had farmed that land since time immemorial.
Pliny, in his third book, says that from time immemorial the people of the southern coasts of Spain believed that the sea had forced a passage between Calpe and Abila: “Indigenæ columnas Herculis vocant, creduntque per fossas exclusa antea admisisse maria, et rerum naturæ mutasse faciem.” A Philosophical Dictionary
The instant possesses an immemorial elasticity that defies quantitative diagnosis.
The right is ‘to indulge in lawful sports and pastimes’ while avoiding the need to prove an immemorial custom or legal origin which would establish a class A or class B green.
Whether or not Witchcraft was handed down in an unbroken line from time immemorial or whether there was ever a golden age of matriarchy is totally irrelevant.
An awl is an iron instrument used for piercing leather, but the word has been in punning use since time immemorial.
But once the English language has fallen from the etheral atmosphere of immemorial purity into flattened pidgin expurged from the affects which could possibly mislead the translator, newcomers to English could well "creolize" Euro-English. Languagehat.com: EUROLISH.
Noah and his family understood this dependency on other living creatures when they devised the ark and its immemorial zoo.
Storytelling and religion are depicted as legitimizing existing power relations by appealing to the sanctity of immemorial traditions.
Jewellery in the form of bracelet, rings, pins and earrings have been used universally since time immemorial.
The right to the Mass itself from IMMEMORIAL CUSTOM perdured from the sixth century through 1570 and was not affected by Q.P.T. Fellay speaks: The talks begin in the autumn of 2009
Three of them standing side by side, ponderous and immemorial. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Elementary teachers from time immemorial have used themes in their teaching.
History shows a variety of such sources: immemorial custom, divine law, the law of nature, a constitution.
Awarded the Military Cross, he took lives to save others, contributing to the ‘long-famous glories, immemorial shames of war’.
Because they will be part of that immemorial conversation of humankind about how we shall live.
The first alludes to the immemorial right of the mayor and commonalty to the conservancy of the Thames, and to the metage of all coals, grain, salt, fruit, vegetables, and other merchandise sold by measure, delivered at the port of London. The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges
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From time immemorial there have been friendly migrations and unfriendly onslaughts on the Kerala society, mostly through the sea.
In their reply to this plea the representatives of Scotland re-assert the immemorial suzerainty of the Roman Church over Scotland "the property, the peculiar allodium of the Holy See"; in all controversies, they said, between these equal and independent kingdoms it is to their equal superior, the Church of Rome, that recourse should be had. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
The archidiaconal residence rises on an area tied since time immemorial to church activities.
Our ancestors from times immemorial used this prehistory track as they travelled with their flocks and it is thought to have been the route taken by the early travellers to Stonehenge.
We yearn, with that immemorial human ache, to find someone to blame - but whom?
From time immemorial, countries have competed with each other.
Carefully placed to capture and reflect light, water softens and cools the interior in the immemorial Hispanic tradition.
Awarded the Military Cross, he took lives to save others, contributing to the ‘long-famous glories, immemorial shames of war’.
The jigsaw fairy lights appeared ephemeral; the dark, immemorial and timeless.
Iraqis might have desired a more modern, egalitarian system, but tribal law, said Thomas piously, had “the sanction of immemorial custom.” Day of Honey
False bottoms and bear market rallies have trapped investors since time immemorial.
From time immemorial the tribe have buried their dead here.
The Barton family have lived in this village since time immemorial.
For the most part, life here is lived much as it has been since time immemorial: decadently, stylishly and glitzily, all under bliss-inducing, cloudless skies.
Since time immemorial the arms trade has operated on the morality of the cheque book. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
For example, we are already seeing nostalgic laments of the loss of the immemorial rights of Internet users.
History shows a variety of such sources: immemorial custom, divine law, the law of nature, a constitution.
It is unquestionably very gritty: it's not a place to go in contact lenses, there's always a wind blowing in from Harlesden or somewhere causing immemorial dust to rise from the unswept pavements.
Woods and fields are tremulous at twilight with the shimmering of white saltant forms, and immemorial Ocean yields up curious sights beneath thin moons. Kenneth Hite's Journal
And it is a symbol of eternity, time immemorial.
This ceremony hath been observed from time immemorial in order to encourage agriculture, the profession of which is deemed very honourable in China, and there are annual rewards proposed to such as excell in it. Hau Kiou Choaan
And to extract humour from annoyances and irritations is what comedians have always done since time immemorial.
In fact we have a long tradition of protecting nature and have protected reserves from times immemorial.
Below all these strata lay the immemorial peasant base of straight barter and the still-important tax in kind.
Now add the many sayings of immemorial antiquity, although the early bird getting a worm for his punctuality is hardly inspirational imagery for those among us with more discriminating palates.
His rights cannot be established by possession from time immemorial, nor by innumerable and regular acquittances; he must produce the act of enfeoffment which is many centuries old, the lease which has never, perhaps, been written out, the primitive title already rare in 1720, [2229] and since stolen or burnt in the recent jacqueries: otherwise he is despoiled without indemnity. The French Revolution - Volume 1
They've come south to graze their cattle and trade in the dry season from time immemorial.
Different minerals have special properties, that's why men have chosen to wear them since time immemorial. HOPE TO DIE
From time immemorial despots have imprisoned their opponents under particularly cruel conditions; they have tortured them, dishonored them, debased and executed them.
Her family had farmed that land since time immemorial.
But, now, in regard to the exactly similar error respecting the nature of man, the situation is reversed; for this blunder, unlike the other one, is not merely hypothetical; we have seen that it was actually committed and has been actually persisted in from time immemorial; not merely for years or for decades or for centuries but for _centuries_ of Manhood of Humanity.
Pliny, in his third book, says that from time immemorial the people of the southern coasts of Spain believed that the sea had forced a passage between Calpe and Abila: “Indigenæ columnas Herculis vocant, creduntque per fossas exclusa antea admisisse maria, et rerum naturæ mutasse faciem.” A Philosophical Dictionary
The more you experience this contrast and this distance, the more you will feel the importance, for us, of an immemorial past and a distant future.
For the names I see written above me to-day on the immemorial canopy of heaven begin with that of the spotless knight, the unsceptred and uncrowned king, the godlike and immaculate "-- (here he turned suddenly, ran to the front of the stage, and, with outstretched fist shaking violently over our heads, thundered at the full power of his lungs):" GEORGE WASHINGTON! In the Arena Stories of Political Life
But my London love - just like my London hate - is no mere catalogue of pursuits: it's a sense of belonging to a vast agglomeration of almost immemorial human desire, ambition and endeavour.

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