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underived

[ uhn-di-rahyvd ]

adjective

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of underived1

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

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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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