Meaning

From or in the earliest known times..

Definitions by Sense

1. From or in the earliest known times.
2. In the period before contact with Europeans (especially with reference to peoples subjected to colonization).
3. (Canada) By indigenous Canadians (often capitalized in this sense).
4. To the utmost degree (modifying an adjective.)

Example Sentences

[…] 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).

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?

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.

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Use aboriginally when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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