单词 | unauthentic |
释义 | unauthenticadj. (un- prefix1 1.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > faking of documents > [adjective] falsec1000 Apocrypha1387 counterfeit1393 surmised?1518 apocryph1549 unauthentical1549 suborned1550 apocryphal1590 disauthentic1591 suppositive1598 supposititious1600 surreptitious1615 spurious1624 unauthentic1631 ungenuine1665 ingenuine1675 nothal1716 apocryphical1719 fabricate1755 doctored1853 1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies xxiv. 204 He vents such unauthenticke stuffe, as it proves pregnantly from what spirit it comes. 1660 J. Gauden Μεγαλεια Θεου 51 Thy humane traditions, and unauthentick because uncatholick observations, instead of Christ's institutions. 1778 T. Warton Diss. in Hist. Eng. Poetry (1781) p. xx Shakespeare is thought to have formed his play [Anthony and Cleopatra] on this story from North's translation of Amyot's unauthentic French Plutarch. 1833 E. Burton Lect. Eccl. Hist. ii. xxii. 249 The evidence is equally unauthentic, which speaks of Zoticus, an Armenian Bishop, being put to death at this same period. 1851 I. Taylor Wesley & Methodism (1852) 132 But the Methodists took orders in another manner, less direct and explicit indeed, but yet..not unauthentic or unimportant. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1631 |
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