APOCRYPHAL

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Pertaining to the Apocrypha.

2.
a.

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.