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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Albigensian, Arian, Catharist, Donatist, Ebionitist, Erastian, Gnostic, Jansenist, Jansenistic, Jovinianist, Jovinianistic, Lollard, Manichaean, Monophysite, Monophysitic, Montanist, Montanistic, Pelagian, Sabellian, Waldensian, Wyclifite, affected, antinomian, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, distorted, doubtful, dressed up, dubious, dummy, emanationist, embellished, embroidered, erroneous, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, fallacious, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, garbled, heretical, heterodox, hylotheist, hylotheistic, illegitimate, imitation, inaccurate, incorrect, junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, nonofficial, nonorthodox, open to question, pantheist, pantheistic, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, questionable, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unaccepted, unapproved, unattested, unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative, uncanonical, uncertified, unchecked, unconfirmed, uncorroborated, undemonstrated, ungenuine, unnatural, unofficial, unorthodox, unproved, unreal, unscriptural, unsound, untrue, unvalidated, unverified, unwarranted, warped, wrong

Dictionary Results for apocryphal:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

apocryphal
    adj 1: being of questionable authenticity
    2: of or belonging to the Apocrypha

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Apocryphal \A*poc"ry*phal\, a.
   1. Pertaining to the Apocrypha.
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   2. Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal;
      mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.
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            The passages . . . are, however, in part from
            apocryphal or fictitious works.       --Sir G. C.
                                                  Lewis.
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