aboriginally
Americanadverb
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in or since the earliest time; originally.
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often Aboriginally, in a way that relates to Aboriginal or other Indigenous peoples, especially of Australia.
Example Sentences
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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
To believe that man was aboriginally civilised and then suffered utter degradation in so many regions, is to take a pitiably low view of human nature.
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
The face has been the chief object of attention, though, when man aboriginally went naked, the whole surface of his body would have been attended to.
From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals 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 through disuse or natural selection.
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
Many of these points are of so unimportant or of so singular a nature, that it is extremely improbable that they should have been independently acquired by aboriginally distinct species or races.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Charles Darwin
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