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unapocryphal en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + apocryphal.

Meanings

  1. Not apocryphal; not of doubtful authority, authoritative
    • For books are as meats and viands are; ſome of good, ſome of evill ſubſtance; and yet God in that unapocryphall viſion, ſaid without exception, Riſe Peter, kill and eat, leaving the choice to each mans diſcretion. 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 11:

Forms

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unapocryphall alternative, obsolete lexicographic
more unapocryphal Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most unapocryphal Degree=Sup lexicographic