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

Man, it may be added, does not appear to have aboriginally inhabited any oceanic island; and in this respect he resembles the other members of his class.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Charles Darwin

With animals, actions appearing due to intelligence may be performed through inherited habit without any intelligence, although aboriginally thus acquired.

From The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits by Charles Darwin

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

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 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

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

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