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Pronunciation
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- /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪn.ə.li/ (US)
- /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.n̩.ə.li/ (US)
Etymology
Etymology tree English aboriginal Middle English -ly English -ly English aboriginally From aboriginal + -ly.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) From or in the earliest known times.
[…] 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.
1868, Charles Darwin, chapter 2, in The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 52 of 52-53:[…] man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 58, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:[…] 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).
2006, Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within, New York: Gotham, Part 2, Chapter 2, p. 145:
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(not-comparable) In the period before contact with Europeans (especially with reference to peoples subjected to colonization).
The question is, was the disease [tuberculosis] present aboriginally in the New World, or was it introduced to Native Americans by European explorers?
1986, Robert L. Blakely, David S. Mathews, “What Price Civilization?”, in Miles Richardson, Malcolm C. Webb, editors, The Burden of Being Civilized: An Anthropological Perspective on the Discontents of Civilization, Athens: University of Georgia Press, page 12:[…] in the New World, where pots were never aboriginally shaped by turning, wheeled vehicles also were absent […]
1973, Charles F. Hockett, chapter 31, in Man’s Place in Nature,, New York: McGraw-Hill, page 523:Xaymaca, as the island was aboriginally known, is situated in the Caribbean Sea […]
1896, Allan Eric, “Buckra” Land: Two Weeks in Jamaica, Boston, Appendix:
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(Canada, not-comparable) By indigenous Canadians (often capitalized in this sense).
These areas […] relate to the identity of Aboriginally predominant communities.
2002, Bradford W. Morse with Robert K. Groves, Who Are Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples?, pages 209-210:All land subject to the claim becomes either Crown land or aboriginally-owned land.
1987, Kate Irving, What Government Does in the Western Northwest Territories: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.
1991, Jim Harding, An Annotated Bibliography of Aboriginal-controlled Justice Programs in Canada, page 80:
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(not-comparable) To the utmost degree (modifying an adjective.)
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.
1931, G. K. Chesterton, “Dickens at Christmas”, in Marie Smith, editor, The Spirit of Christmas: Stories, Poems, Essays, New York: Dodd, Mead, published 1985, page 77:Dried apricots eaten with cake should be soaked and simmered first, eaten with cheese they should be aboriginally dry.
1978, Iris Murdoch, chapter 3, in The Sea, the Sea, London: Chatto & Windus, pages 181–182:Though his rage against iniquity is aboriginally simple and childlike, and is certainly not always level-headed, it is never divorced from reason […]
1920, Greville MacDonald, The Sanity of William Blake, London: George Allen and Unwin, page 24:[…] those travellers who did make the trip [to the Western Isles] returned with stories which made Scotland and the Scots sound as aboriginally exotic as shark-eating Eskimos or man-eating pygmies.
2005, Bella Bathurst, chapter 5, in The Wreckers, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 152: