apocrypha

apocrypha has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n. pl.. Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority; -- formerly used also adjectively.
• n. pl.. Specif.: Certain writings which are received by some Christians as an authentic part of the Holy Scriptures, but are rejected by others.
• n.. 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status