aboriginally

adv

1. (not-comparable)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. (not-comparable)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. (Canada, not-comparable)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.”

4. (not-comparable)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.”

   “[…] 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.”