time out of mind

Definitions

1. 1

   The distant past beyond anyone's memory.

   • Harvests at Boisveyrac had been gathered under arms since time out of mind, with sentries posted far up the shore.
   • And on the yew that has been green from the times out of mind By the Steep Place of the Strangers and the Gap of the Wind.
2. 2

   A lengthy duration of time, longer than is readily remembered.

   • They were Episcopalians, and for time out of mind had rented a half-pew in the church of their denomination on California Street.
3. 3

   For a lengthy period of time

   For a lengthy period of time; on numerous occasions.

   • Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut / Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, / Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.
   • Our constitution is a prescriptive constitution; it is a constitution, whose sole authority is, that it has existed time out of mind.

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