underived

Historical Examples

• New forms of dead matter may be derived, but new living forms are underived.

  Evolution

  Joseph Le Conte

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

  A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

  W. T. Stace

• They are absolute and independent, underived and unoriginated—the essential qualities of my nature.

  Sermons of Christmas Evans

  Joseph Cross

• The old kindliness must be transplanted to a fresh soil if it were to blossom into a life self-sufficient and underived.

  Second String

  Anthony Hope

• The mind, through its original and underived thinking, is itself the pattern (Urbild) of such a synthesis.

  A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'

  Norman Kemp Smith