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单词 from time out of mind
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from time out of mind
(b)out of mind: from time immemorial (obsolete); esp. in time out of (formerly also †a) mind: from a time or during a period beyond human memory; from time immemorial; (occasionally) for an inconceivably long future time, indefinitely. Also with preceding prepositions in same sense, as from time out of mind, since time out of mind, etc.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adverb] > from time immemorial
out of mind1387
immemorially1614
since Adam was a boy1722
1387–8 Petition London Mercers in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 35 As out of mynde hath be vsed.
1416 in H. M. Flasdieck Mittelengl. Originalurkunden (1926) 54 (MED) Wyche tenementes..ever haue be owte of myende.
1432 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) IV. 417/1 (MED) Tyme oute of mynde..there were wont many diverse Shippes..to come..yn to the saide Havenes.
a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 70 (MED) All his successours bin bounde fro time oute of minde for j yerdelonde.
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 165 (MED) Þat blysse ffor to restore Whiche hath be lost fro oute of mende.
c1523 J. Rastell tr. Tenuris sig. A.iiiv Ye tenure in villenage shal make no fre man villeyn if it be not contynued syth tyme out of mynd.
a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 460 Ther haue ben Chirchewardens..tyme out of mynde electyff yerely.
1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxiii. f. 193 My..slepinge body vnder toumbe, shall dreame time out of minde.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iv. 70 Grub, time out a mind, the Fairies Coatchmakers. View more context for this quotation
1623 T. Scott High-waies of God 12 To follow that faith which his forefathers professed time out of minde.
1703 Acct. Theatre of War in France 3 Time out of mind, the French have been distinguish'd into Langue d'Ouy, and Langue d'Oc.
1766 J. Cunningham Poems 144 Since time out of mind..Both [actors and Jews] lawless, alike, have been sentenc'd to wander.
a1849 J. Keegan Legends & Poems (1907) 263 From time out of mind, this parish has been famous for its dances.
1898 G. W. E. Russell Coll. & Recoll. xxii. 292 A favourite theme of satirists time out of mind.
1923 G. C. Williamson Curious Survivals xvi. 244 In 1605 a charter of King James admitted that the City for time out of mind had exercised the conservation of the Thames.
1961 Times 28 July 11/4 Has it [sc. the tune ‘Chopsticks’] been handed on since time out of mind by generations of elder brothers and sisters on wet afternoons?
1991 Washington Post (Nexis) 31 May (Weekend section) 55 Her commentary..has been convulsing her descendants for 135 years. That it will continue to do so for time out of mind is partly because of [etc.].
2007 S. Sohmer Shakespeare for Wiser Sort iii. 34 Shakespeare's time-setting for Hamlet..has vexed commentators time out of mind.
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