Hypertext Webster Gateway: "apocryphal"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Apocryphal \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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

apocryphal
adj : of questionable authenticity


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