aboriginally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.n̩.ə.li/
ipa: /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪn.ə.li/
Etymology: From aboriginal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
ref: 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:
text: […] 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.
ref: 1868, Charles Darwin, chapter 2, in The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 52-53:
text: […] 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).
ref: 2006, Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within, New York: Gotham, Part 2, Chapter 2, p. 145:
glosses: From or in the earliest known times.
examples: text: Xaymaca, as the island was aboriginally known, is situated in the Caribbean Sea […]
ref: 1896, Allan Eric, “Buckra” Land: Two Weeks in Jamaica, Boston, Appendix:
text: […] in the New World, where pots were never aboriginally shaped by turning, wheeled vehicles also were absent […]
ref: 1973, Charles F. Hockett, chapter 31, in Man’s Place in Nature,, New York: McGraw-Hill, page 523:
text: The question is, was the disease [tuberculosis] present aboriginally in the New World, or was it introduced to Native Americans by European explorers?
ref: 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:
glosses: In the period before contact with Europeans (especially with reference to peoples subjected to colonization).
examples: text: All land subject to the claim becomes either Crown land or aboriginally-owned land.
ref: 1987, Kate Irving, What Government Does in the Western Northwest Territories:
text: 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.
ref: 1991, Jim Harding, An Annotated Bibliography of Aboriginal-controlled Justice Programs in Canada, page 80:
text: These areas […] relate to the identity of Aboriginally predominant communities.
ref: 2002, Bradford W. Morse with Robert K. Groves, Who Are Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples?, pages 209-210:
glosses: By indigenous Canadians (often capitalized in this sense).
examples: text: Though his rage against iniquity is aboriginally simple and childlike, and is certainly not always level-headed, it is never divorced from reason […]
ref: 1920, Greville MacDonald, The Sanity of William Blake, London: George Allen and Unwin, page 24:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: Dried apricots eaten with cake should be soaked and simmered first, eaten with cheese they should be aboriginally dry.
ref: 1978, Iris Murdoch, chapter 3, in The Sea, the Sea, London: Chatto & Windus, pages 181–182:
text: […] 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.
ref: 2005, Bella Bathurst, chapter 5, in The Wreckers, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 152:
synonyms: absolutely
thoroughly
utterly
glosses: To the utmost degree (modifying an adjective.)