underived

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Thus the qualities of the four elements are ultimate and underived, but all other qualities must be founded upon the position and arrangement of particles of the four elements.

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

He whose being is eternal, underived, self-sufficing, self-determining, knowing no variation, no diminution, no age, He who is because He is and that He is, dwells in His fulness in our Saviour.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Maclaren, Alexander

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

If their rights are inherent and underived, they may, by their own suffrages, encircle, with a diadem, the brows of Mr. Cushing.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Johnson, Samuel

Consciousness is, first, immediate consciousness, and its reference to the object accordingly the simple and underived certainty of it.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich