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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Example Sentences

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 Darwin, Charles

The almost entire absence of associated grasses, which forms so remarkable a feature in the vegetation of this island, may perhaps be accounted for by the land having been aboriginally covered with forest-trees.

From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles

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 Darwin, Charles

Did the three species just named, like their close allies, the several species of Utricularia, aboriginally possess bladders on their rhizomes, which they afterwards lost, acquiring in their place utriculiferous leaves?

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

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 Cook, Sherburne F.