Indigenous vs Enchorial - What's the difference?

Indigenous is a synonym of enchorial.

As adjectives the difference between indigenous and enchorial

is that indigenous is (chiefly|of living things) born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion while enchorial is indigenous, native.

indigenous

English

Adjective

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(chiefly, of living things) Born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.

* 1862 , , "Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree":

Not only the Indian, but many indigenous insects, birds, and quadrupeds, welcomed the apple-tree to these shores.

Innate, inborn.

* 1852 , , Uncle Tom's Cabin , ch. 18:

She was a native and essential cook, as much as Aunt Chloe,—cooking being an indigenous talent of the African race.

* 1883 , , "Stephen Archer" in Stephen Archer and Other Tales :

He had all the tricks of a newspaper boy indigenous in him.

Synonyms

* (born or engendered in) aboriginal, autochthonous, native

Derived terms

* indigenity * indigenously * indigenousness * nonindigenous

enchorial

English

Adjective

(-)

Indigenous, native.

* 1900 , George Johnson, "Place-Names" in'' George Upham Hay (ed.), ''Canadian History Readings , volume 1?, page 89

Well, the right name, Ouigoudi , if it had been continued as the name of the settlement, would be styled an enchorial name. St. John is an imported name, having been taken from the river to which the name was given by deMonts and Champlain in 1604 because they discovered it on St. John the Baptist's Day

Of, relating to, or written in the vulgar form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.

* 1872 , Philip Smith, A Smaller Ancient History of the East , page 130

The inscription of the Rosetta Stone is written in hieroglyphics'' and in ''enchorial letters, with a Greek translation.

Synonyms

* (indigenous) autochthonous, indigenous, native * (of the vulgar form of hieratic writing) demotic, enchoric