underived

[ uhn-di-rahyvd ]

adjective

1. not derived; fundamental, as an axiom or postulate; immediate.

Word History and Origins

Origin of underived¹

First recorded in 1620–30; un- ¹ + derived ( def )

Example Sentences

Swedenborg, for whom nature has no powers underived from spiritual sources, teaches that this vital power is the soul itself.

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It affects to treat men as though their existence were underived, and independent of any Supreme Being.

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

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

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No, he is something underived and utterly unprecedented, unique, a new soul.

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