underived

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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

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 had true creative imagination, a fund of original, underived emotion, and a copiousness of invention almost as great as Wagner's or Mozart's.

From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by Runciman, John F.

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

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

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