Word Meanings - APOCRYPHA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority; -- formerly used also adjectively. Locke. 2. Specif.: Certain writings which are received by some Christians as an authentic part of the Holy Scriptures, but are rejected

Additional info about word: APOCRYPHA

1. Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority; -- formerly used also adjectively. Locke. 2. Specif.: Certain writings which are received by some Christians as an authentic part of the Holy Scriptures, but are rejected by others. Note: Fourteen such writings, or books, formed part of the Septuagint, but not of the Hebrew canon recognized by the Jews of Palestine. The Council of Trent included all but three of these in the canon of inspired books having equal authority. The German and English Reformers grouped them in their Bibles under the title Apocrypha, as not having dogmatic authority, but being profitable for instruction. The Apocrypha is now commonly

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• WRITING
  1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
• AUTHENTICITY
  1. The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness. 2. Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original. Note: In later writers, especially those on the evidences of Christianity,
• RECEIVE
  To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• WRITATIVE
  Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• LOCKER
  1. One who, or that which, locks. 2. A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock. Chain locker , a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables. -- Davy Jones's locker, or
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  One who rejects.
• WRITER
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• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
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• AUTHENTIC
  An original . "Authentics and transcripts." Fuller.
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• LOCKET
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• SPECIFY
  To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased. He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and
• WRITHLE
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• TYPEWRITING
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• STORY-WRITER
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