adjective. Of questionable authorship or authenticity.

adjective. Erroneous; fictitious.

adjective. Of or having to do with the Apocrypha.

Of doubtful authorship, authenticity, or inspiration; spurious; fictitious; false.

Specifically— Eccles.: Of doubtful sanction; uncanonical; having no ecclesiastical authority.

Of or pertaining to the Apocrypha: as, “the Apocryphal writers,” Addison.

noun. A writing not canonical; a book or passage of uncertain source, authority, or credit.

adjective. Pertaining to the Apocrypha.

adjective. Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.

adjective. Of, or pertaining to, the Apocrypha.

adjective. Of doubtful authenticity, or lacking authority; not regarded as canonical.

adjective. Of dubious veracity; of questionable accuracy or truthfulness; anecdotal or in the nature of an urban legend.

adjective. of or belonging to the Apocrypha

adjective. being of questionable authenticity

"The term apocryphal in connection with special Gospels must be understood as bearing no more unfavourable an import than"

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