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APOCRYPHAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being of questionable authenticity
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Similar:
questionable (subject to question)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or belonging to the Apocrypha
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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Apocrypha (14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status)
Derivation:
Apocrypha (14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status)
