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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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
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
On the basis of all these facts the author believes that the Tachi aboriginally possessed one village with at least 1,600 inhabitants and that Cabot's figure for this village was reasonably accurate.
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Sherburne F. Cook
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
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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