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Apocrypha [əˈpɒkrɪfə] n the (functioning as singular or plural) 1. (Christian Religious Writings / Bible) the 14 books included as an appendix to the Old Testament in the Septuagint and the Vulgate but not included in the Hebrew canon. They are not printed in Protestant versions of the Bible 2. (Christian Religious Writings / Bible) RC Church another name for the Pseudepigrapha [via Late Latin apocrypha (scripta) hidden (writings), from Greek, from apokruptein to hide away] apocrypha 1. religious writings of disputed origin, regarded by many author-ities as uncanonical. See also: Bible
2. (capitalized) a group of 15 books, not part of the canonical Hebrew Bible, but present in the Septuagint and Vulgate and hence accepted by some as biblical. — apocryphal, adj. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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Because there are many ciphers which I would read as easily as I do the apocrypha of the agony column: such crude devices amuse the intelligence without fatiguing it. And on some mornings, when he read in the Apocrypha, of which he was very fond, the son of Sirach's keen-edged words would bring a delighted smile, though he also enjoyed the freedom of occasionally differing from an Apocryphal writer. He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do, or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it. |
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