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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.

ith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance…

n, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried. We must all appear before the judgment seat. * Cor. v. 10. One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear. Macaulay.

Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness. A select vocabulary corresponding (in point of archaism and remoteness from ordinary use) to our Scriptural vocabulary. De Quincey.

by melody, as distinguished from harmony. Mendelssohn wants the ariose beauty of Handel; vocal melody is not his forte; the interest of his airs harmonic. Foreign Quart. Rev.

A sound made by the vocal organs; an articulate utterance or an elementary sound, esp. a consonant.

d with them. The cartilages are attached to the cricoid cartilage and connected with the vocal cords.

An ask; a water newt. [Local Eng.]

pended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.

To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate.

In a state of asphyxia; suffocated.

An elementary sound produced by the breath alone; a surd, or nonvocal consonant; as, f, th in thin, etc.

ens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thus causing imperfect images or indistictness of vision.

or actively engaged. -- At least. See Least and However. -- At one. See At one, in the Vocabulary.

The portion of air in any locality, or affected by a special physical or sanitary condition; as, the atmosphere of the room; a moist or noxious atmosphere.

Destitute of tone vocality; surd. Rush.

Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities. [Chiefly in the plural.]

One who advocates autonomy.

See Avocado.

An advocate; a patron; a patron saint. [Obs.] Let God alone be our avowry. Latimer.