apocryphal Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite being of questionable authenticity
  2. adjective of or belonging to the Apocrypha

WordNet

A*poc"ry*phal adjective
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913