IMMEMORIAL

PRONUNCIATION: (im-uh-MOHR-ee-uhl)

MEANING: adjective: Very old; beyond memory or recorded history.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin in- (not) + memoria (memory). Earliest documented use: 1593.
__________________________

IN MEMORIAL - where Abraham Lincoln's statue is in Washington, D.C.

VIM MEMORIAL - a tribute to my get-up-and-go, which (no surprise!) has got-up-and-went

GIMME-MORIAL - describing the behavior of the insatiably greedy