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Apocryphal definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

APOC'RYPHAL, a. Pertaining to the apecrypha; not canonical; of uncertain authority or credit; false; fictitious.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: being of questionable authenticity
2: of or belonging to the Apocrypha

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1590 1. of doubtful authenticity ; spurious 2. often capitalized of or resembling the Apocrypha Synonyms: see fictitious • apocryphally adverb • apocryphalness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 of doubtful authenticity (orig. of some early Christian texts resembling those of the New Testament). 2 invented, mythical (an apocryphal story). 3 of or belonging to the Apocrypha.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Apocryphal A*poc"ry*phal, a. 1. Pertaining to the Apocrypha. 2. Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works. --Sir G. C. Lewis.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

An apocryphal story is one which is probably not true or did not happen, but which may give a true picture of someone or something. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Unauthentic, legendary, uncanonical, of doubtful authority, fictitious, false, equivocal, dubious, spurious.

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