apocryphal
11apocryphal — adjective an apocryphal story about a famous person or event is well known but probably not true: Washington s apocryphal phrase: Father, I cannot tell a lie …
12apocryphal — [16] Apocryphal is a ‘secondgeneration’ adjective; the original adjective form in English was apocrypha (‘The writing is apocrypha when the author thereof is unknown’, John de Trevisa 1387). This came, via ecclesiastical Latin, from Greek… …
13apocryphal — apocryphally, adv. apocryphalness, n. /euh pok reuh feuhl/, adj. 1. of doubtful authorship or authenticity. 2. Eccles. a. (cap.) of or pertaining to the Apocrypha. b. of doubtful sanction; uncanonical. 3. false; spurious: He told an apocryphal… …
14apocryphal — adj. Apocryphal is used with these nouns: ↑gospel, ↑story …
15apocryphal — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. spurious, unauthenticated, fictitious, doubtful; see false 2 , legendary 2 . See Synonym Study at legendary . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [uh POK ruh ful] questionable, unsubstantiated, or… …
16apocryphal — a|poc|ry|phal [əˈpɔkrıfəl US əˈpa: ] adj [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: apocrypha works not by the claimed writer (14 21 centuries), from Late Latin, from apocryphus secret, not part of the official list of works , from Greek, from apokryptein to hide …
17apocryphal — adjective an apocryphal account of Jesus childhood Syn: fictitious, made up, untrue, fabricated, false, spurious; unverified, unauthenticated, unsubstantiated; bogus See note at spurious Ant: authentic …
18Apocryphal — adj. 1 of doubtful authenticity (orig. of some early Christian texts resembling those of the New Testament). 2 invented, mythical (an apocryphal story). 3 of or belonging to the Apocrypha …
19apocryphal — adj. 1 of doubtful authenticity (orig. of some early Christian texts resembling those of the New Testament). 2 invented, mythical (an apocryphal story). 3 of or belonging to the Apocrypha …
20Apocryphal (группа, Белоруссия) — Apocryphal Годы c 1994 Страна Белоруссия …
