autochthonic

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They corrupt their autochthonic customs, and drink champagne cider.

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel

He sees the Gothic architecture spring high, spontaneous and autochthonic, first in the territory of Paris and thence spread outwards in a ring to the Scotch Highlands and to the Rhine.

From Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" by Belloc, Hilaire

The dance is the primordial, autochthonic form of music; its foundation so to speak.

From Beethoven by Fischer, George Alexander

Or was it original and autochthonic, independent, in its inception, of any external influences, and unconnected with any other institution?

From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.

But Lincoln, his times, his death—great as any, any age—belong altogether to our own, and our autochthonic.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt