underived

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Their error is, that they make them the proper and underived attributes of the world.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Empedocles had believed in four ultimate and underived kinds of matter.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

Mrs. Meredith and Rowan and the clergyman were left with the father and the children, and with an unexampled wedding collation—one of Pansy's underived masterpieces.

From The Mettle of the Pasture by Allen, James Lane

Dharma is material essence, the plastic cause, and underived, a co-equal biunity with Buddha; or else the plastic cause, as before, but dependent and derived from Buddha.

From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by Griffis, William Elliot

The old kindliness must be transplanted to a fresh soil if it were to blossom into a life self-sufficient and underived.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony