Dictionary entry

Apocryphal

Webster's Dictionary 1913

A‐poc″ry‐phal (�), a. 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.