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/ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.n̩.ə.li/
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/ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪn.ə.li/
Pronunciation notes
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Adverb
From or in the earliest known times.
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[…] man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
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[…] 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).
In the period before contact with Europeans (especially with reference to peoples subjected to colonization).
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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 […]
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The question is, was the disease [tuberculosis] present aboriginally in the New World, or was it introduced to Native Americans by European explorers?
By indigenous Canadians (often capitalized in this sense).
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All land subject to the claim becomes either Crown land or aboriginally-owned land.
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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.
To the utmost degree (modifying an adjective.)
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Though his rage against iniquity is aboriginally simple and childlike, and is certainly not always level-headed, it is never divorced from reason […]
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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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[…] 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.