apocryphal
AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (2)
- being of questionable authenticityOpposite unquestionableSimilar questionable
- of or belonging to the ApocryphaRelating to Apocrypha
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
A·poc′ry·phal (…), adjective
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 George Cornewall Lewis
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54