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

  Apocryphal \A*poc"ry*phal\, a.
     1. Pertaining to the Apocrypha.
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     2. Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal;
        mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.


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              The passages . . . are, however, in part from
              apocryphal or fictitious works.       --Sir G. C.
                                                    Lewis.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  apocryphal
       adj 1: of questionable authenticity
       2: of or belonging to the Apocrypha

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  117 Moby Thesaurus words for "apocryphal":
     Albigensian, Arian, Catharist, Donatist, Ebionitist, Erastian,
     Gnostic, Jansenist, Jansenistic, Jovinianist, Jovinianistic,
     Lollard, Manichaean, Monophysite, Monophysitic, Montanist,
     Montanistic, Pelagian, Sabellian, Waldensian, Wyclifite, affected,
     antinomian, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem,
     colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, distorted,
     doubtful, dressed up, dubious, dummy, emanationist, embellished,
     embroidered, erroneous, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked,
     fallacious, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive,
     garbled, heretical, heterodox, hylotheist, hylotheistic,
     illegitimate, imitation, inaccurate, incorrect, junky,
     make-believe, man-made, mock, nonofficial, nonorthodox,
     open to question, pantheist, pantheistic, perverted, phony,
     pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, questionable,
     self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant,
     spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated,
     twisted, unaccepted, unapproved, unattested, unauthentic,
     unauthenticated, unauthoritative, uncanonical, uncertified,
     unchecked, unconfirmed, uncorroborated, undemonstrated, ungenuine,
     unnatural, unofficial, unorthodox, unproved, unreal, unscriptural,
     unsound, untrue, unvalidated, unverified, unwarranted, warped,
     wrong
  
  

















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