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Writings that may not be real
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apocrypha
Alternative clues for the word apocrypha
- Group of books in some Bibles
- 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible
- Noncanonical texts
- Strange approach taken about year books
- Fresh approach covering the ultimate in cookery books
- Surprised comment about rumour in music? Uncertain stuff
Word definitions for apocrypha in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., neuter Late Latin apocryphus "secret, not approved for public reading," from Greek apokryphos "hidden; obscure," thus "(books) of unknown authorship" (especially those included in the Septuagint and Vulgate but not originally written in Hebrew ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apocrypha \A*poc"ry*pha\, n. pl., but often used as sing. with pl. Apocryphas . [L. apocryphus apocryphal, Gr. ? hidden, spurious, fr. ? to hide; ? from + ? to hide.] Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority; -- formerly used ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Apocrypha " is the sixteenth episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files . It premiered on the Fox network on . It was directed by Kim Manners , and written by Frank Spotnitz and series creator Chris Carter ...
Usage examples of apocrypha.
With a charging army of twenty-four troops, the cardinal blazed west over the Rhone River bridge, away from Avignon, toward the Apocrypha Archive and toward a wicked thunderhead swallowing up the horizon like some advancing black plague.
Council of the Apocrypha - and with his only superior, the pontiff himself, who, for better or worse, remained ignorant of all matters concerning the Council.
As a cardinal, Pierre Roger had argued fiercely against any proposition to which, in his eyes, stood to strengthen the position of the Council of the Apocrypha - a position Roger had always felt undermined the authority of the College of Cardinals.
And should it come to this, he was prepared to justify such an act of insubordination by doing something that had never been done before in the history of the Apocrypha Council - by removing the evidence from the archive and presenting it directly to Clement.
The Apocrypha Archive held all the existing secrets of the Church, and held it close.
It listed each pontiff and councilman ever to serve the Apocrypha, and contained the Council bylaws as well.
He said he had been sent by His Holiness to inspect Apocrypha records.
Have you ever known the purpose behind the Council of the Apocrypha, or what is held in its archive?
In contrast, the Council of the Apocrypha was a small, veiled and purposefully unrecorded papal body wielding an authority that easily rivaled that of the College, the cardinals of the Apocrypha suffered no dominion but that of God and were accountable only to His chosen representative on earth - the Holy Father.
Its Pope, its College of Cardinals and its Apocrypha Cardinals were all fair game.
Such knowledge rests in the archives of the Apocrypha, in what they call the Naramsin translations.
Chateau Mallow belonged to the Council of the Apocrypha, the residence of Cardinals Basiliste and Lean.
The evidence of a vile murder disappeared into the French countryside, and its perpetrator, Cardinal Jean-Francois Blasi, now held the key to the secrets of the Council of the Apocrypha and consequently, their two closely-guarded monasteries: des Gardiens and del Cancello.
Church of the Apocrypha about twenty miles southwest of Ukiah, off in the woods.
Church of the Apocrypha to locate this Brother Titus and find out if he is coincidence or part of it somehow.