apocryphal

Definition

Of, or pertaining to, the Apocrypha.

Etymology

From apocrypha + -al.

Example Sentences

• "[…] ‘Tobit and his dog baith are altogether heathenish and apocryphal, and none but a prelatist or a papist would draw them into question. I doubt I hae been mista'en in you, friend.’"
• "Besides all this, he had read his Bible, including the apocryphal books; […]"
• "The Latins are throughout poorer. Tertullian and Cyprian will be referred to; but Jerome hates apocryphal literature, and says so, while Augustine, a valuable source of knowledge about some New Testament Apocrypha, never, it so happens, quotes spurious Old Testament literature at all."