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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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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

If you say that nebulous matter existed aboriginally and from eternity, with all its present complex powers in a potential state, you seem to me to beg the whole question.'

From God and the World A Survey of Thought by Arthur William Robinson

Stewart makes it quite clear that aboriginally the Kacia had no permanent settlements on the coast itself.

From The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California by Sherburne Friend Cook

A total of 268 converts would imply a population of at least 500 persons at the time of conversion and probably more aboriginally.

From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Sherburne F. Cook

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

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