Meaning of APOCRYPHAL
| Pronunciation: | | u'pâkruful
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[adj] of questionable authenticity |
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APOCRYPHAL is a 10 letter word that starts with A. |
| | Synonyms: | | questionable |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | affected, Albigensian, antinomian, Arian, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, Catharist, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, distorted, Donatist, doubtful, dressed up, dubious, dummy, Ebionitist, emanationist, embellished, embroidered, Erastian, erroneous, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, fallacious, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, garbled, Gnostic, heretical, heterodox, hylotheist, hylotheistic, illegitimate, imitation, inaccurate, incorrect, Jansenist, Jansenistic, Jovinianist, Jovinianistic, junky, Lollard, make-believe, Manichaean, man-made, mock, Monophysite, Monophysitic, Montanist, Montanistic, nonofficial, nonorthodox, open to question, pantheist, pantheistic, Pelagian, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, questionable, Sabellian, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unaccepted, unapproved, unattested, unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative, uncanonical, uncertified, unchecked, unconfirmed, uncorroborated, undemonstrated, ungenuine, unnatural, unofficial, unorthodox, unproved, unreal, unscriptural, unsound, untrue, unvalidated, unverified, unwarranted, Waldensian, warped, wrong, Wyclifite |
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