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

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

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 Charles Darwin

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

As to religion, he says, “There is no evidence that man- 116 - was aboriginally endowed with the ennobling belief in the existence of an omnipotent God.”

From Life of Charles Darwin by G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany

It appears clear that aboriginally there were two semipermanent sites and a number of temporary settlements.

From The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California by Sherburne Friend Cook

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