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  • 41aboriginal — aboriginality, n. aboriginally, adv. /ab euh rij euh nl/, adj. 1. of, pertaining to, or typical of aborigines: aboriginal customs. 2. original or earliest known; native; indigenous: the aboriginal people of Tahiti. n. 3. aborigine (def. 1). 4.… …

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  • 42Aztec — Aztecan, adj. /az tek/, n. 1. a member of a Nahuatl speaking state in central Mexico that was conquered by Cortés in 1521. 2. Also called classical Nahuatl. the variety of Nahuatl that served as the medium of Aztec civilization, aboriginally… …

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  • 43Eastern Algonquian — a subgroup of the Algonquian language family, comprising the languages spoken aboriginally from Nova Scotia to northeastern North Carolina. * * * …

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  • 44Iroquoian languages — Family of about 16 North American Indian languages aboriginally spoken around the eastern Great Lakes and in parts of the Middle Atlantic states and the South. Aside from the languages of the Iroquois Confederacy (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga …

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  • 45Oracle — • A Divine communication given at a special place through specially appointed persons; also the place itself. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Oracle     Oracle      …

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  • 46Munsee — noun An endangered Eastern Algonquian language, one of the two Delaware languages, spoken aboriginally in the vicinity of what is now New York City …

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  • 47Charles Darwin's religious views — Charles Darwin (1809–1882), who proposed the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. Charles Darwin s views on religion have been the subject of much interest. His work which was pivotal in the development of modern biology and… …

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  • 48aboriginal — (adj.) 1660s, first, earliest, especially in reference to inhabitants of lands colonized by Europeans, from aborigines (see ABORIGINE (Cf. aborigine)) + AL (Cf. al) (1); specific Australian sense is from 1820. The noun is attested from 1767.… …

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  • 49a priori — [L.] 1. Theoretically, before experience, before trial, from assumed principles. 2. From pure reason, from the nature of the case, independently of all experience, necessarily, absolutely, apodictically, primordially, aboriginally,… …

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  • 50Carib — Car•ib [[t]ˈkær ɪb[/t]] n. pl. ibs, (esp. collectively) ib for1. 1) peo a member of an American Indian people that aboriginally inhabited parts of the Lesser Antilles and the South American coast from E Venezuela to the Amazon delta 2) peo the… …

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