apocryphal

& s. [Eng. apocryph ( a ); -al. In Dan, apocryphiste Dut. apocrife; Ger. apocryphisch; Fr. apocryphe; Sp. & Ital. apocrifo; Port. apocrypho.] IMG:content-0616.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Pertaining to the fourteen books collectively denominated the Apoсгурһа. the Apocryphal Books which are usually printed between the Old and New Testaments."Hart well Horne: Introd, to Study of Scripture (1825), vol. iv., 214, note. Apocryphal Controversy: A controversy which arose about 1821, as to whether the Bible Society were acting rightly in binding the Apocrypha between the two Testaments of the Bibles which they i ued, this practice having been adopted in order to render the sacred volume more acceptable in Roman Catholic countries or districts. The anti Apocryphal party ultimately prevailed over their opponents. About 1826 the Apocrypha was altogether excluded from the Society's Bible. [APOCRYPHA.] 2. Of doubtful authority; mythic, fabulous. "The pa ages to which it refers, are however in part from apocryphal or fictitious works."-Lewis: Early Rom. Hist ., ch. iii, § 2, vol. 1, p. 73. B. As substantive: One of the fourteen books named under APOCRYPHA, B., I. 1., or any literary production of similar pretensions and character. upon this only "Nicephorus and An as tas i us account (as Usher thinks), because they were inter polated and corrupted, did rank these epistles in the number of apocryphals ."-ianmer: View of Antiquity, p. 419.