self-derived

"To be able to transplant autologous self-derived kidneys would save many lives and spare many people the tedium and expense of dialysis."

The Week in Words Erin McKean 2011

To be able to transplant autologous self-derived kidneys would save many lives and spare many people the tedium and expense of dialysis.

How Close Are We to 'Printing' New Organs? Matt Ridley 2011

There is tremendous joy in understanding that purpose and meaning in life are self-derived, and that these precious commodities are not some gift from above that can be taken away arbitrarily by a wrathful deity working in mysterious ways.

Vatican Chooses to Prey on Rather Than Pray for Children 2010

There is tremendous joy in understanding that purpose and meaning in life are self-derived, and that these precious commodities are not some gift from above that can be taken away arbitrarily by a wrathful deity working in mysterious ways.

Jeff Schweitzer: Vatican Chooses to Prey on Rather Than Pray for Children 2010

It just becomes a problem when we try to force that self-derived meaning on other people.

nessus Diary Entry nessus 2004

We love it and pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

IV. Essays. Self-Reliance. 1841 1909

We have no independent, self-derived, or self-sustained life.

Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. 1888

The Scripture appellation of the supreme Being, usually interpreted as signifying self-derived and permanent existence.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

My Swedenborgian friends might account for the absence of sense being held proof positive of the saintly character by urging that idiots were certainly free from one of the worst evils of this generation denounced by the Swedish Seer as "self-derived intelligence."

Round the World Andrew Carnegie 1877

Surely this, that for all you who have, in any measure, caught a glimpse of what you ought to be, and have been more or less vainly trying to realise your ideal, and reach your goal, there is a better way than the way of self-centred and self-derived and self-dependent effort.

Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Alexander Maclaren 1868