Definition of "aboriginally"
aboriginally
adverb
not comparable
From or in the earliest known times.
Quotations
[…] 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. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], pages
In the period before contact with Europeans (especially with reference to peoples subjected to colonization).
Quotations
The question is, was the disease [tuberculosis] present aboriginally in the New World, or was it introduced to Native Americans by European explorers?
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
(Canada) By indigenous Canadians (often capitalized in this sense).
Quotations
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, Prairie Justice Research, School of Human Justice, University of Regina, p. 80
These areas […] relate to the identity of Aboriginally predominant communities.
2002, Bradford W. Morse and Robert K. Groves, “Métis and Non-status Indians and Section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867 in Paul L.A.H. Chartrand (ed.), Who Are Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples? Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, pp. 209-210
To the utmost degree (modifying an adjective).
Quotations
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