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Immemorially

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im·me·mo·ri·al  (m-môr-l, -mr-)
adj.
Reaching beyond the limits of memory, tradition, or recorded history.

[Medieval Latin immemorilis : Latin in-, not; see in-1 + Latin memorilis, memorial; see memorial.]

imme·mori·al·ly adv.

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O my soul, to thy domain gave I all wisdom to drink, all new wines, and also all immemorially old strong wines of wisdom.
But the captain, for some unknown constitutional reason, had refrained from mentioning all this, and not till forced to it by Ahab's iciness did he allude to his one yet missing boy; a little lad, but twelve years old, whose father with the earnest but unmisgiving hardihood of a Nantucketer's paternal love, had thus early sought to initiate him in the perils and wonders of a vocation almost immemorially the destiny of all his race.
The labourers--or "work-folk", as they used to call themselves immemorially till the other word was introduced from without--who wish to remain no longer in old places are removing to the new farms.
 
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