aboriginally

Adverb

aboriginally (not comparable)

1. From or in the earliest known times.
   • […] 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
   • […] 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
2. 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 […]1896, Allan Eric, “Buckra” Land: Two Weeks in Jamaica, Boston, Appendix
   • […] 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
3. (Canada) By indigenous Canadians (often capitalized in this sense).
   • 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
4. 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 […]1920, Greville MacDonald, The Sanity of William Blake, London: George Allen and Unwin, page 24
   • 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

   Synonyms:

   absolutely, thoroughly, utterly