[f. as prec. + -Y.] Autochthonous condition; aboriginal occupation.
1846. Grote, Greece, I. vi. I. 146. The fancy of one or a few great families branching out widely … was more popular … than that of a distinct autochthony in each of the separate districts.
1879. De Quatrefages’ Hum. Spec. 179. Polygenists, and the partisans of the autochthony of nations have declared that these migrations are impossible in a certain number of cases.
¶ erron. for Autoctony ‘suicide.’
1652. Urquhart, Jewel, Wks. (1834), 243. By taking away the sword, hindred the desperate project of that autochthony.
