Meaning of APOCRYPHAL
| Pronunciation: | | u'pâkruful
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| | Definition: | | [adj] of questionable authenticity |
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| | Synonyms: | | questionable |
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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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