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apocryphal, a. and n.|əˈpɒkrɪfəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
A. adj. Of doubtful authenticity; spurious, fictitious, false; fabulous, mythical.
a. orig. of a writing, statement, or story.
1590J. Greenwood Sland. Art B ij b, We hold them..not only a babling, but apochriphall & Idolatrous. 1678Butler Hud. iii. i. 492 If but one word be true..In all th' apocryphal romance. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. II. App. 569 The tale has a somewhat apocryphal sound.
b. spec. Of or belonging to the Jewish and early Christian uncanonical literature.
1615Curry-C. for Coxe-C. ii. 93 Peremptory..against the Canonizing of these Apogriphall bookes. 1711Addison Spect. No. 28 ⁋6 Our Apocryphal Heathen God [Bel]..in conjunction with the Dragon. 1865Lecky Ration. (1878) I. 210 The apocryphal gospels..were for the most part of Gnostic origin.
c. gen. Unreal, counterfeit, sham, ‘imitation.’
1610B. Jonson Alchemist i. i, A whoreson, upstart, apocryphal captain. 1649C. Walker Hist. Indep. ii. 226 This Agreement was..complained of in the apocryphal House of Commons. 1843Jerrold Punch's Lett. xx. Wks. I. 473 He lived by putting off pencils, with apocryphal lead in them.
†B. n. An apocryphal writing. Obs. rare.
1661Grand Debate 13 Some Psalm or Scripture Hymn..instead of that Apocryphal [the Benedicite]. 1677J. Hanmer View of Antiq. 419 (T.) Nicephorus and Anastasius..did rank these epistles in the number of apocryphals. |