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aboriginally

American  
[ab-er-i-juhn-uh-lee] / ˌæb ərˈɪ dʒən ə li /

adverb

  1. in or since the earliest time; originally.

  2. often Aboriginally, in a way that relates to Aboriginal or other Indigenous peoples, especially of Australia.


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Is it not probable that guest-flies were aboriginally gall-makers, and bear the same relation to them which Apathus probably does to Bombus?

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin

But each organism still retains the general type of structure of the progenitor from which it was aboriginally derived.

From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin

Since the pipe had been broken at that end, it may have been repaired aboriginally with such a cord.

From A Burial Cave in Baja California The Palmer Collection, 1887 by William C. Massey

A man cannot, however, deviate at once so widely and so spontaneously in his impulses from the rest of the world in which he himself lives without possessing an aboriginally abnormal temperament.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Havelock Ellis

As to religion, he says, “There is no evidence that man- 116 - was aboriginally endowed with the ennobling belief in the existence of an omnipotent God.”

From Life of Charles Darwin by G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany

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