(a.) Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Men have governed the world since time immemorial and what has the world been like?"
(2) Spinal cord injury resulting in paraplegia or tetraplegia has from time immemorial led to early death.
(3) The apostrophe has been missing since time immemorial.
(4) Rape has always happened in war since time immemorial, hasn't it?
(5) Unity Australia spokesman Terry Hall said in the lead up to the event: “Despite the suggestion of some counter-protest at the WA, Victorian and NSW events, we expect these to be peaceful and joyful occasions celebrating the way marriage has provided the best environment for the nurturing and protection of children since time immemorial.” A counter-protest had also been organised in the park, and about 50 protesters gathered there amid a large police presence.
(6) The Chinese people discovered ginseng and used it as a revitalizing agent since time immemorial.
(7) Then there's the problem of English-speaking actors doing German accents, the bane of movies about the world wars since time immemorial.
(8) Mercury has been used medically in the Middle East since time immemorial.
(9) Dining tables in particular have immemorial meanings.
(10) Nevertheless, Achebe absorbed the folk tales told to him by his mother and older sister, stories he described as having "the immemorial quality of the sky, and the forests and the rivers".
(11) This slightly arch disguise of a French alter ego allows Hawthorne to pretend that the story is another of his "finds", and so invests it with a kind of immemorial halo - a cautionary fable from ancestral wisdom.
(12) Since time immemorial the Chinese people have used various parts of motherwort to meet different physical needs.
(13) Dried fish has, from time immemorial, been an important item of the diet.
(14) There is an obvious reason for this: since time immemorial the rich have been averse to declaring their wealth.
(15) Men have been talking of death from time immemorial - sometimes sublimely in prose and poetry, in painting and sculpture and in music - till silence seemed to fall in the recent past.
(16) Craniofacial malformations have been recorded since time immemorial.
(17) "Mapmaking has helped them to assert their claims to the land by identifying exactly the areas they have lived since time immemorial," says the head of the Tebtebba foundation, Vicky Tauli-Corpuz.
(18) LS There have been grumpy shop encounters since time immemorial.
(19) It can be summarized by saying that lymphocytes have been destined from time immemorial to identify a specific antigen.
(20) In this paper, I have suggested that plasma membrane cell adhesion proteins that were involved in ontogenic organogenesis since time immemorial were the ultimate ancestor of the adaptive immune system.
Memory
Definition:
(n.) The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
(n.) The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.
(n.) The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
(n.) The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.
(n.) Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.
(n.) A memorial.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only other evidence of Kopachi's existence is the primary school near the memorial.
(2) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
(3) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(4) On the clinical level, the disorder is characterized by a memory encoding deficit.
(5) An operant delayed-matching task was used to assess the role of proactive interference (PI) effects on short-term memory capacity of rats.
(6) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(7) Mice with mutations in four nonreceptor tyrosine kinase genes, fyn, src, yes, and abl, were used to study the role of these kinases in long-term potentiation (LTP) and in the relation of LTP to spatial learning and memory.
(8) This alloimmune memory was shown to survive for up to 50 days after first-set rejection.
(9) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
(10) The effects of noise on information processing in perceptual and memory tasks, as well as time reaction to perceptual stimuli, were investigated in a laboratory experiment.
(11) Continuity of care programs, such as that developed by the Pain Service of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York), with good communication and liaison work between hospital and community, add a much needed dimension to the pain management of these patients in the home.
(12) Their speech patterns, specifically pronoun use, were analyzed and support the postulate that a high frequency of self-references indicates memory loss and paucity of present experience.
(13) Following an encephalopathic illness, a 13-year-old Chinese boy had a partial form of Klüver-Bucy syndrome with emotional disturbance, recent memory loss, hypersexuality, and polyphagia.
(14) It is hypothesized, furthermore, that the kinetics of emergence and loss of these various populations may reflect switching in the mode of immunity being expressed, particularly during the chronic phase of the infection, from that of a state of active immunity to one of immunologic memory.
(15) In contrast, the long-latency P300 cognitive potential, which reflects such processes as sequential information processing and short-term memory, does not show a mature waveform and latency until 14 to 17 years of age.
(16) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(17) The hippocampus plays an essential role in the laying down of cognitive memories, the pathway to the frontal lobe being via the MD thalamus.
(18) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
(19) There were no age differences on tests of short-term memory.
(20) Future research and clinical evaluations should focus on the components of the learning and memory processes when the ramifications of temporal lobe ablations on cognitive function are studied.