English Dictionary

apocrypha

/ʌˈpɑk.ɹə.fə/

noun

Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority (formerly also used attributively).

The apocrypha is a collection of texts that are not included in the official canon of a religious tradition.

意味（1）

Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority (formerly also used attributively).

But it may be objected, that these books being in the Jews' canon , ought to be acknowledged for divinely inspired , rather than the apocryphas that never were in it