单词 | aboriginally |
释义 | aboriginallyadv. 1. From the very beginning; from the origin of a people or culture; in the earliest times or conditions known to history. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [adverb] > from the very beginning originally1654 aboriginally1695 1695 Bp. J. Williams Certainty of Divine Revelation 20 If such Usages, Rites and Principles have been observed, practised, and believed, in Nations that have had no relation one to another..they must arise from some common Head, from whence they were aboriginally dispersed. 1722 Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 150 The Aborigines (the Indians) have no word in their Language for a Bee, as they have for all Animals whatsoever proper to, or aboriginally of the Country. 1821 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 95 428 The eastern shore had certainly been peopled, aboriginally, with Saxon settlers. 1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. Voy. Beagle (1879) xviii. 424 The land having been aboriginally covered with forest trees. 1875 C. Darwin Insectivorous Plants xv. 359 It seems scarcely possible that each tentacle could have aboriginally existed as a prolongation of the leaf. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 816/2 Two facts are established—namely, that the Eskimo lived formerly farther south..and that, aboriginally, they were not specially adept in carving and etching. 1948 E. Waugh in Commonweal 16 July 323/1 The children of Adam are not a race of noble savages... They are aboriginally corrupt. 1995 M. Haslam Whole Bauble 45 All the pools where beauty aboriginally begins. 2. In an Australian Aboriginal language. ΚΠ 1863 J. Morrill Sketch of Resid. 19 The native small plum, aboriginally known as the Bolemo, botanically as the Ficus aspera. 1917 Bulletin (Sydney) 5 July 22/2 Leach's kingfisher is aboriginally known as kitticarrara. 2006 Sunday Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 25 June (Preview section) 28 Barnawatha near Wodonga translates Aboriginally as ‘deaf and dumb’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1695 |
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