adv. [f. ABORIGINAL + -LY2.] From the very beginning; from the origin of a race; in the earliest times or conditions known to history or science.
1821. W. Taylor, in Month. Rev., XCV. 428. The eastern shore had certainly been peopled, aboriginally, with Saxon settlers.
1845. Darwin, Voy. of Nat. (1879), xviii. 424. The land having been aboriginally covered with forest trees. Ibid. (1875), Insectiv. Plants, xv. 359. It seems scarcely possible that each tentacle could have aboriginally existed as a prolongation of the leaf.
