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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aboriginally

Hence it might be argued that the females had aboriginally been furnished with well-developed spurs, but that these had subsequently been lost through disuse or natural selection.

From The Descent of Man by Charles 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

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

It appears clear that aboriginally there were two semipermanent sites and a number of temporary settlements.

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

On the view here given, it may be asked, Why have the species which were aboriginally twiners been converted in so many groups into leaf- climbers or tendril-bearers?

From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Charles Darwin

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