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)

Not less remarkable is the implication in these words, not only of the completeness of His message, but of the fullness of His knowledge of God, and its entirely underived nature.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI by Maclaren, Alexander

And finally from a first or from underived being?

From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Wunsch, William F.

"Firstly,—if underived virtue be peculiar to the Deity, can it be the duty of a creature to have it?"

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various

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

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