How To Use Apocryphal In A Sentence
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In these Apocryphal accounts, they appear as the molesters, assailants, and destroyers of men.
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Hence arose a considerable apocryphal Pilate literature, of which the Gospel of Gamaliel really forms a part, and like this latter apocryphon, it is characterized by exaggerating Pilate's weak defence of Jesus into strong sympathy and practical belief in His divinity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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And finally, in the last extant part of the apocryphal Gospel of Mary, Mary is defended by the disciple Levi, presumably the son of Alphaeus.
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The apocryphal gospels uniformly insisted that Joseph was an old widower who was not Mary's husband, but her ‘guardian.’
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Urban legends are apocryphal or wildly inaccurate stories that are passed on from person to person until they reach a point where they are accepted as truth.
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Hence, while the influence of orthodox Christianity upon the Koran has been slight, apocryphal and heretical Christian legends, on the other hand, are one of the original sources of Koranic faith.
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Although the story is likely apocryphal, it is said that Galileo dropped balls of various weights from the top of the campanile to prove his new view of gravity.
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Then, the day he decided to pull out -- that was probably apocryphal, but when his money was just about gone -- suddenly he struck lucky.
HIGH STAND
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What many may find to be the most helpful section of each chapter is where the author discusses the ‘Influence’ of each apocryphal book upon the authors of the New Testament.
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Unlike similar collections in the past, here the Rabbinic approaches are cited without any inclusion of aggadic traditions from the apocryphal or Christian literatures.
Midrash and Aggadah: Introduction and Sources.
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None of this of course is in the New Testament, although once again some elements of these stories can be found in what we call the apocryphal New Testament, later Christian writings.
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The story is probably apocryphal, since botanical evidence suggests that the coffee plant originated in the highlands of central Ethiopia.
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Contact you dream? you listen? spoken word? a.e. stallings | triolet on a line apocryphally attributed to martin luther
A.e. stallings | triolet on a line apocryphally attributed to martin luther « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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Other stories that sound apocryphal are unfortunately true.
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In one apocryphal story that circulated on trading floors years ago, Black once tried to execute several trades using his model.
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The story of Borrow's being "horsed" on Dr Martineau's back is apocryphal.
The Life of George Borrow
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For example, what is the position of the apocryphal writings?
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It's too detailed to go into here, but one gobbet of fascinating info Peyotitlan served up was the apocryphal etymology of "gringo": "The US army wore green uniforms and when the locals saw them, simply said 'Green, go!' telling them to go away.
Readers' reviews: Maverick entertainers, film plots that technology would have ruined, and more
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The apocryphal story of Robert Bruce watching the spider spin its web seven times, which restored his faith to battle the English once again, became a staple of inspirational lecturers.
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Tiberius is only founded on the pretended apocryphal fasti of
A Philosophical Dictionary
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In both the biblical book of Proverbs and the apocryphal book of Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom is personified and is said to participate in God's creative activity.
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The plaintive cry "Don't let the Government get its hands on my Medicare," might be apocryphal, but it highlights the vacuousness of a political movement that is built on deliberate denial by Americans of their own responsibility for the straits in which we find ourselves.
David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart
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_Bernard Palissy in Jupiter_, is apocryphal, and that it was not a spirit inhabitant of Jupiter who guided Victorien Sardou's hand.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891
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Whether this story is apocryphal or not, it accurately reflects the band's philosophy and perhaps predicts the directions their music would take.
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But we perceive that the obviously mutilated prophecy of Merlin the Magician and the apocryphal chronogram of the Venerable Bede had come under her notice.
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
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Most of the story about his private life was probably apocryphal.
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More convincing than this thorough inspection of apocryphal statements and chronological details are the passages in which Bann teaches us how to see early photographic reproductions of art.
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These include biblical, apocryphal, sectarian, and legal writings.
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There was famously, possibly apocryphally, a public school classics master who took early retirement to go and become a Masai wife.
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Apocryphally, I once heard a story about a woman who had an extremely expensive silk dress, printed with Chinese characters.
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This quotation is attributed to Bill Gates, but Mr. Shapiro suspects that it is apocryphal, and is seeking the person who either said it or first attributed it to Mr. Gates.
Did Bill Gates Really Say That? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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This story is surely apocryphal, but it does sound like an announcement with a story behind it!
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It reminded me of the apocryphal tale of the Rolls Royce mechanics that appear halfway up a Swiss mountain to fix a faulty gearbox then refuse to charge the owner for the repairs because a Rolls Royce never breaks down.
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Many other apocryphal Jewish and Christian works were in circulation too, not just the famous Gnostic Gospels.
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All stories attributing the ending of slavery to Lincoln should be regarded as apocryphal, a mere creation of pro-Lincoln civil rights forces.
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Hence, while the influence of orthodox Christianity upon the Koran has been slight, apocryphal and heretical Christian legends, on the other hand, are one of the original sources of Koranic faith.
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The apocryphal story of Columbus and the egg is very interesting.
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Admittedly, people have made too much of the apocryphal remark attributed to Adm Chester Nimitz that no surprises occurred in the Second World War in the Pacific except the kamikazes.
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The bagel has a rich history, though its origin is somewhat apocryphal.
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It's a good story but I dare say it's apocryphal.
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While some eponyms may be simply disputed, others lean towards the apocryphal, like the idea that the Bloody Mary cocktail was named for England's ‘Bloody Mary,’ Queen Mary I of England.
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Many baseball reporters claim the story is apocryphal, but others insist on its verity.
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A typical rebuttal is to suggest that information entropy and thermodynamic entropy are unconnected, citing the apocryphal story that Shannon picked the term entropy because “nobody understands what it means”.
Vacuity of Intelligent Design - The Panda's Thumb
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3D Realms officially re-announced Duke Nuke'em Forever at Penny Arcade Expo 2010, and actually let gamers play the apocryphal game for the first time.
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What follows is a description of each lesson: I have not embellished or exaggerated anything, or imported any apocryphal incidents.
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Could his death have been the consequence of a greedy search for treasure, or is this yet another apocryphal story?
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The material in it on Jesus accords with various sources in the Christian popular apocryphal literature, but propounds a distinctive line about Jesus' significance.
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Those who have never worked in a restaurant believe that such stories are apocryphal.
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[8] Which were these twenty-two sacred books of the Old Testament, see the Supplement to the Essay of the Old Testament, p. 25-29, viz. those we call canonical, all excepting the Canticles; but still with this further exception, that the book of apocryphal Esdras be taken into that number instead of our canonical Ezra, which seems to be no more than a later epitome of the other; which two books of Canticles and Ezra it no way appears that our Josephus ever saw.
Against Apion
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According to an apocryphal legend, when the Titanic took its passengers to their watery graves, the P&J offered up the headline ‘Northeast man drowned at sea’.
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The story is apocryphal, but is a good indication of the extreme measures countries take to protect the secret that they can read an enemy's secrets.
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The bagel has a rich history, though its origin is somewhat apocryphal.
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These apocryphal or deuterocanonical books were written by and about Jews in the time before Christianity was established as a separate religion, but they were not included in the Jewish canon.
Shawna Dolansky: The Truth(s) About Hanukkah
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Most of the story about his private life was probably apocryphal.
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In much the same way that the - no doubt - apocryphal tale of the mum writing her son a note excusing him from gym the following week because ‘he will have flu’ always raises a titter.
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A very obscure one, though - and again referred to only cryptically, even in the more apocryphal works of the time.
NIGHT SISTERS
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He never quoted from the apocryphal books on a single occasion.
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The intransitive very inactive verb is from the 15th-century Scottish dialect noun lungis, meaning “laggard, lingerer,” rooted in the Latin Longinus, the apocryphal name of the soldier who lanced Jesus in the side, and was influenced by longus, “long,” associated with “slow.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Wealthy in the learned misery of my cimmerian temperment, one imploringly seeks forbearance, from those who have made apocryphal thrones before those Muses; Calliope, Clio and Erato - disremember not that all things circumduct the calamity of Melpomeme and droll Thalia.
ShoutWire.com
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There being little or no biblical evidence for any of these claims, the programme focused on apocryphal writings - including a Gospel of Mary Magdalene which turned up in 1945.
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Wright was, in a sense, adding apocryphal books to his own hermetic scripture with each poem.
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`I mean, I've heard a story, though I wasn't sure how apocryphal it was.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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The apocryphal story of Columbus and the egg is very interesting.
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The New Testament writers never quote from any of the apocryphal books.
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That's just one apocryphal Bergman factoid (Webster's dates "dramaturg" back to 1870) that theater producer Andrew Higgie has collected over the half dozen years it has taken him to get the filmmaker's "Through a Glass Darkly" screenplay up and running as a stage play at London's
Variety.com
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I have no idea whether or not the above story is true or apocryphal, but I'd like to believe it anyway.
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Hence, while the influence of orthodox Christianity upon the Koran has been slight, apocryphal and heretical Christian legends, on the other hand, are one of the original sources of Koranic faith.
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It may be an apocryphal story, but I was once told that cool-looking out-of-work actors and students were employed by publishers to read particular books on the London underground.
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The portrayal of Esther in an act of archetypal feminine weakness, taken up by most Baroque artists, is based on the apocryphal text (Esther 15: 7 – 11), accepted as a deuterocanonical one at the Council of Trent (1545 – 1547).
Art: Representation of Biblical Women.
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Perhaps someday this apocryphal tale will become what it should be: an illustration of how easily even ‘experts’ can sometimes fall victim to the very same dangers they warn us about.
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In one apocryphal story that circulated on trading floors years ago, Black once tried to execute several trades using his model.
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Rose refers to the apocryphal book, Wisdom of Solomon, as ‘scripture’.
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Well his mother tells that now famous story about the Bible resting open on a stand in the middle of Bob Dylan's study, as an indispensable source for his music; is that apocryphal?
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As I have noted elsewhere, as a literature specialist, I find a distinct difference in quality between the canonical and apocryphal books.
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Early Greek manuscripts of the Bible present a series of 14 canticles or ‘odes’ including the Gloria in excelsis and the apocryphal Prayer of Manasseh.
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Many of the apocryphal gospels of the second and subsequent centuries are written in ‘worse’ Greek than Mark - that is, worse by the Attic standard.
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Even highly exalted men, like the authors of apocryphal books, Daniel, for instance, and Enoch, committed, to aid their cause, and without the shadow of a scruple, acts which we should call frauds.
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The story - probably apocryphal - is that William Webb Ellis at Rugby School in the nineteenth century picked up the ball during a soccer match and ran with it, inventing rugby.
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The story that a turkey which looks up during a rainstorm will drown is likely apocryphal, but certainly they seem stupid enough to not look down when they feel their lungs filling up.
Talking Turkey
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The biblical canon originally understood wisdom as being in existence prior to the creation of the world, and the later writers of the apocryphal texts expanded wisdom to include the word and the law.
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What a mean and ungentlemanly act, to say the very least, is that of Mr. Seward in raking up a more or less apocryphal list of
Echoes of the Week
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Some are even considered heretical, much like apocryphal books of the Bible.
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Most of the story about his private life was probably apocryphal.
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Beyond Belief is about the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas, written in the second century and much amended later, which Pagels prefers to the canonical Gospels, and especially to the Gospel of John.
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I have not checked the Louisville newspapers, but this story reeks of apocryphalness.
ROB NEYER’S BIG BOOK OF BASEBALL LEGENDS
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If this story were told by a Republican, Lexington would dismiss it as apocryphal.
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The apocryphal story of Columbus and the egg is very interesting.
