underived

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In that case, we thus have two equally real ultimate beings, each underived from the other, existing side by side from all eternity.

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

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

In this sense no right divine nor compact can form a king; that is, a person, exercising underived and unreverting power.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel

With the former, Buddha is intellectual essence, the efficient cause of all, and underived.

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

The power of the intellect is not some underived, original, independent power which can impose or, better, superimpose its categorical imperatives upon human conduct.

From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph