unoriginatedadj.

1693 S. Nye Considerations Explic. Doctr. Trinity 28/2 It hath been said by some Divines, God is self-originated or self-begotten. But 'tis utterly false; they ought to have said, he is unoriginated or unbegotten.

1696 W. Payne Let. to Bp. of R—— 15 The Father is the only self-existent, unoriginated Being.

1712 S. Clarke Scripture-doctrine Trinity ii. 243 The Father (or First Person) Alone is Self-existent, Underived, Unoriginated, Independent.

1797 Encycl. Brit. X. 730 Any two unoriginated powers acting upon one another at right angles.

1838 E. B. Browning Measure i God, the Creator, with a pulseless hand Of unoriginated power, hath weighed The dust of earth.

1867 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings i. 16 The force of gravitation, which is not a mere mechanical agency, unoriginated and uncontrolled.

1919 Classical Weekly 12 102/2 An eternal drama enacted by an infinitude of unoriginated and indestructible elements.

1968 E. P. Meijering Orthodoxy & Platonism in Athanasius i. 27 He is confronted with the difficult question how the soul, if it is not unoriginated, can be imperishable.

2002 G. O'Collins in S. T. Davis et al. Incarnation i. 20 It is the unoriginated Father who generates the Son within the eternal life of God.

1723 D. Waterland 2nd Vindic. Christ's Divinity ii. 125 It was to admit of a higher and a lower Sense of the Word God; the higher supposed to have nothing above the other but Self-existence, or Unoriginateness.

1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 160 The unoriginatedness of souls.

1970 J. Donceel tr. K. Rahner Trinity 84 It sounds as if the notional unoriginatedness of the Father were intended.

2012 M. J. McClymond & G. R. McDermott Theol. J. Edwards iii. xliii. 707 Viewing the Father as distinguished from Son and Spirit because of his unoriginatedness.