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1593 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) i. vi. 38 Tithe lead is the chiefest part of the Ministers liuing, in such places where it is gotten. Which I feare me would hardlie bee yeelded (as it hath bene by time immemoriall) onely of pure good will.

1759 O. Goldsmith Bee 6 Oct. 7 This deformity..it had been the custom, time immemorial, to look upon as the greatest ornament of the human visage.

1760 Impostors Detected II. iii. x. 103 The beavers having been in possession of it [sc. the island] for time immemorial.

1831–2 Act 2 & 3 Will. IV c. 71 §1 Time Immemorial, or Time whereof the Memory of Man runneth not to the contrary.

1895 Educat. Rev. Sept. 123 The old-style naturalist had been working from time immemorial.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 24/2 They say this blood-wage goes back to time immemorial—back to the day man first decided to break rock and his brother to till the earth.

2005 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 3 Nov. There's an ancient rag-tree, where, from time immemorial, families have tied ribbons to a scrub of a bush.