aboriginally

UK /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.n̩.ə.li/ US /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.n̩.ə.li/
adv 4

Definitions

adv

1

From or in the earliest known times.

[…] man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.

[…] aboriginally the horse must have inhabited countries annually covered with snow, for he long retains the instinct of scraping it away to get at the herbage beneath.

2

In the period before contact with Europeans (especially with reference to peoples subjected to colonization).

Xaymaca, as the island was aboriginally known, is situated in the Caribbean Sea […]

[…] in the New World, where pots were never aboriginally shaped by turning, wheeled vehicles also were absent […]

3

By indigenous Canadians (often capitalized in this sense).

All land subject to the claim becomes either Crown land or aboriginally-owned land.

It appears that lack of funding and control led to the demise of this program, but that with further refinement the idea has merit especially within an Aboriginally-controlled justice system.

4

To the utmost degree (modifying an adjective.)

Though his rage against iniquity is aboriginally simple and childlike, and is certainly not always level-headed, it is never divorced from reason […]

There is something aboriginally absurd in the idea of the old gentleman staring wild-eyed at his own legs; and half recalling something familiar about them; as if he were revisiting the landscape of his youth.

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