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)

In the first place, a large number of rocks may be described as original or underived, for it is not possible to trace them back to any earlier source.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

I gather all that I would desire to say into three points: 'that Light' and its witnesses; the underived Light and the kindled lamps; the undying Light and the lamps that go out.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander

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