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Definition of Apocryphally
1. adv. In an apocryphal manner; mythically; not indisputably.
Definition of Apocryphally
1. Adverb. In an apocryphal manner. ¹
2. Adverb. Regarding apocryphas. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Apocryphally
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apocryphally
Literary usage of Apocryphally
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"ascribed to St. Clement, yet they are undoubtedly Although these constitutions
are apocryphally of very remote antiquity, and were collected into ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1903)
"We are told that he was the most brilliant of causeurs, with an inexhaustible
flow of illustrative anecdote. But, while many a bon-mot has been apocryphally ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"Samuel, 'tis said apocryphally, used to drink as a toast, " An insurrection in
the West Indies, and success to it !" The old Rambler liked to say strong ..."
4. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1875)
"3 I must however vindicate to Clem the authorship of an anecdote which I have
heard apocryphally connected with the ..."
5. A First Book of Jurisprudence for Students of the Common Law by Frederick Pollock (1896)
"With rare exceptions,2 an act not other- 1 The saying ascribed (it seems
apocryphally) to Dr. Keate of Eton : "Boys, if you're not pure in heart, ..."
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