aboriginally

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   From or in the earliest known times.

   • […] man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
   • […] aboriginally the horse must have inhabited countries annually covered with snow, for he long retains the instinct of scraping it away to get at the herbage beneath.
   • […] music, like verse, can do rhythm but it is only poetry that can yoke words together in rhyme (sometimes, of course, and aboriginally, at the service of music).
2. 2

   In the period before contact with Europeans (especially with reference to peoples…

   In the period before contact with Europeans (especially with reference to peoples subjected to colonization).

   • Xaymaca, as the island was aboriginally known, is situated in the Caribbean Sea […]
   • […] in the New World, where pots were never aboriginally shaped by turning, wheeled vehicles also were absent […]
   • The question is, was the disease [tuberculosis] present aboriginally in the New World, or was it introduced to Native Americans by European explorers?
3. 3

   By indigenous Canadians (often capitalized in this sense).

   • All land subject to the claim becomes either Crown land or aboriginally-owned land.
   • It appears that lack of funding and control led to the demise of this program, but that with further refinement the idea has merit especially within an Aboriginally-controlled justice system.
   • These areas […] relate to the identity of Aboriginally predominant communities.
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   1. 4

      To the utmost degree (modifying an adjective.)

      • Though his rage against iniquity is aboriginally simple and childlike, and is certainly not always level-headed, it is never divorced from reason […]
      • There is something aboriginally absurd in the idea of the old gentleman staring wild-eyed at his own legs; and half recalling something familiar about them; as if he were revisiting the landscape of his youth.
      • Dried apricots eaten with cake should be soaked and simmered first, eaten with cheese they should be aboriginally dry.

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