ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not derived or drawn from a source; primary, original.
c. 1630. Sanderson, Serm. (1681), II. 307. Because of the eternity of His own being, and that from Himself, and underived from any other.
1660. R. Coke, Justice Vind., 5. If it be absolute and underived, then how can it be rational?
1719. Waterland, Vind. Christ’s Div., 289. To be able to distinguish between a delegated, and a supreme underived Power.
1799. Kirwan, Geol. Ess., 485. It must have had calcareous earth underived from shell fish.
1850. McCosh, Div. Govt., III. i. 289. Suppose that man had been a self-existent underived being like God.
1860. Pusey, Min. Proph., 468. Life specially belongs to God, since He alone is Underived Life.
b. Of words. (See DERIVE v. 10 b.)
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., 303. That kind of word … is stiled an Adverb; which may be distinguished into Derived and Vnderived.
1827. Q. Rev., XXXV. 191. This not more useful than abused verb,… underived as it is from any parent or adjunct dialect.
1841. Latham, Eng. Lang., 261. All, in respect to Verbs in general, which the Etymologist has to determine, is whether they be Derived or Underived.
Hence Underivedly adv.; Underivedness.
1644. Bp. Maxwell, Prerog. Chr. Kings, i. 19. It is underivedly, primarily, and natively in the Communitie.
1850. F. W. Newman, Phases, ii. 51. This derivation of the Son and Spirit and the underivedness of the Father alone.
1886. Mind, Jan., 39. What is that subjective necessity…? It is … not its underivedness in any one’s mind, not its priority in time.
