Word Meanings - APOCRYPHAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Pertaining to the Apocrypha. 2. Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works. Sir G. C. Lewis.

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• 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
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• CANONICALLY
  ; according to the canons.
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• LEWIS; LEWISSON
  1. An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc. 2. A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth. Lewis hole, a hole wider at the bottom than at the mouth, into
• WORKSHOP
  A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
• APOCRYPHALNESS
  The quality or state of being apocryphal; doubtfulness of credit or genuineness.
• APOCRYPHALIST
  One who believes in, or defends, the Apocrypha.
• DOUBTFULNESS
  1. State of being doubtful. 2. Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness. " The doubtfulness of his expressions." Locke. 3. Uncertainty of event or issue. Bacon.
• AUTHORITY
  1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority
• CANONICALNESS
  The quality of being canonical; canonicity. Bp. Burnet.
• EQUIVOCALLY
  In an equivocal manner.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• WORKSHIP
  Workmanship.
• MYTHIC; MYTHICAL
  Of or relating to myths; described in a myth; of the nature of a myth; fabulous; imaginary; fanciful. -- Myth"ic*al*ly, adv. The mythic turf where danced the nymphs. Mrs. Browning. Hengist and Horsa, Vortigern and Rowena, Arthur and Mordred, are
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• DOUBTFUL
  1. Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure. Methinks I should
• FALSE
  Not in tune. False arch , a member having the appearance of an arch, though not of arch construction. -- False attic, an architectural erection above the main cornice, concealing a roof, but not having windows or inclosing rooms. -- False bearing,
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• PROTOCANONICAL
  Of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture; -- opposed to deutero-canonical.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• UNEQUIVOCAL
  Not equivocal; not doubtful; not ambiguous; evident; sincere; plain; as, unequivocal evidence; unequivocal words. -- Un`e*quiv"o*cal*ly, adv. -- Un`e*quiv"o*cal*ness, n.
• TALEWISE
  In a way of a tale or story.
• SHUTTLEWISE
  Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.
• ANGLEWISE
  In an angular manner; angularly.
• COPPER WORKS
  A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.