Antilegomena

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Antilegomena \An`ti*le*gom"e*na\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. 'anti`
     against + ? to speak; part. pass. ?.] (Eccl.)
     Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not
     universally received, but which are now considered canonical.
     These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James
     and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third


     Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books
     are called the Homologoumena.
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