underived

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He assumes the Nous and matter as existing from the beginning, side by side, as equally ultimate and underived principles.

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

In this mystic and apparently underived term, the a is broad, as in "ah!"

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various

These things can grow up, autochthonous and underived, out of the soil of human nature anywhere, granting certain social conditions. 

From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew

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

The opposite of monism is therefore pluralism, which is that kind of philosophy which seeks to explain the universe from many ultimate and equally underived principles.

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