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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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 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
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
On the whole, the writer feels that the evidence is insufficient to warrant placing the Luechas in the coast ranges as a group aboriginally native to that area.
From The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California by Sherburne Friend Cook
I should here say that natural selection picks out this breed, and would tend to improve it, or aboriginally to have formed it...
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
To believe that man was aboriginally 184 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 and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Charles Darwin
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