aboriginally /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.n̩.ə.li/ adverb4 •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 •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 •(Canada) By indigenous Canadians (often capitalized in this sense).All land subject to the claim becomes either Crown land or aboriginally-owned land. — 1987 •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