Relating to or characteristic of aboriginal or indigenous peoples; describing something that belongs to the original inhabitants.
A variant or related form of 'aboriginal,' this term is rare in modern English but appears in historical texts meaning 'of or pertaining to aborigines' using the suffix '-ary' (relating to).
This obscure variant shows how English creates synonyms through different suffix combinations—'aboriginary,' 'aboriginal,' 'aboriginous' all mean similar things but sound subtly different, giving writers stylistic choices.
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