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Pertaining to the Apocrypha.

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  1. a. Pertaining to the Apocrypha.
  2. a. Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.
  3. adj. of or belonging to the Apocrypha
  4. adj. being of questionable authenticity
  5. 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.
  6. j:100 s. being of questionable authenticity a. of or belonging to the Apocrypha