(a.) Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's said that she and her ladies appeared on the battlements, dusting the places where the enemies' stones had fallen – though that particular story may be as apocryphal as the events in this film.
(2) The story, he later admitted to Lord Justice Leveson, was apocryphal.
(3) One apocryphal story about The Hangover was that it was based on the stag night of Choke producer Tripp Vinson , who supposedly went awol from his own party.
(4) There's a story, possibly apocryphal, about Bennett in which he says: "It's funny that people think I'm so nice, I'm actually a bit of a cunt."
(5) Released in 1997, it’s also apocryphally known as the most returned video game of all time; players were reportedly lured in by the visuals then repelled by the mysteries of the Japanese role-playing genre.
(6) The following is possibly apocryphal, but when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
(7) There is a story, possibly apocryphal, that the imposition of the first Plantagenet prince of Wales was a trick.
(8) You know how many times I’d get a call from girlfriends saying, ‘I just got kicked out of a camp, come pick me up?’” In the US press, the gender imbalance in Williston initially attracted as much attention as the population boom, with apocryphal tales of strippers earning $2,500 a night in tips (though the $500 per night reputed to be more accurate is nothing to sniff at).
(9) To his fans, though, he's rap's Wolf Of Wall Street, someone who weaves apocryphal tales of an ostentatious lifestyle and encourages them to go and get it for themselves.
(10) Just like the apocryphal shrinking Pizza Express pizza, British houses have been getting smaller.
(11) Everyone has at least one ridiculous story and it is impossible to tell which are true and which apocryphal.
(12) Using biblical and biblical-apocryphal sources, the characteristics of Jewish-Christian patriarchism are shown which as a system, especially embodied by elderly men, was very efficient up to the beginning of the 19th century.
(13) This is the first, and probably the most popular, of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County stories, a short, dark and compelling novel set in what he called “my apocryphal county”, a fictional rendering of Lafayette County in his native Mississippi.
(14) John Oliver continued his criticism of president Trump, focusing on his domination of the news cycle by making apocryphal statements , saying: “You can’t avoid talking about him.” “Trump dominates the news cycle like a fart dominates the interior of a Volkswagen Beetle,” he said at the start of his Sunday night show.
(15) Consider some of the ego-centric stories – most infamously, the pants-down motivational speech in the Bayern dressing-room, which feels apocryphal but is true – and the line appears blurred, to say the least.
(16) There is, of course, the famous and possibly apocryphal line , attributed to Ford while shooting the original films and aimed at Lucas: "George, you can type this shit, but you sure can't say it."
(17) They are victims of circumstances and forces much more powerful, immoral and brutal than the apocryphal “bad man with a gun” who can be stopped by a “good man” with the same.
(18) However, this remark would appear to be apocryphal.
(19) The tale may be apocryphal, but when the wily French statesman Talleyrand died in 1838, the no less wily Austrian chancellor Metternich’s response is said to have been : “I wonder what he meant by that?” These days it is getting to be a bit like this with George Osborne .
(20) This reflects the narrative of most actual papal elections – these stories tend to be a serious exploration of what is supposed to be a famously apocryphal question: is the pope a Catholic?
Propound
Definition:
(v. t.) To offer for consideration; to exhibit; to propose; as, to propound a question; to propound an argument.
(v. t.) To propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church.
Example Sentences:
(1) A critical review of these regimens quickly reveals that the majority are propounded with considerably more confidence than statistical proof of their efficacy.
(2) This paper, presented as part of a panel on the subject, has propounded the view that the defense is unconscionable, using that aspect of the definition dealing with unreasonableness.
(3) While the classical theory of menstrual reflux easily accounts for the genital locations, other theories, notably metaplasia, have been propounded to explain more remote locations.
(4) We can see from the examples discussed that there are many instances where principles, guidelines, rules or laws propounded for the benefit of one party may restrain autonomy, beneficence and justice done to another.
(5) In 1975 in southern Tamil Nadu, an aged practitioner of Ayurveda conducted for the author's benefit a series of lectures about cancer, in which he propounded his own idiosyncratic theory regarding the nature of this disease.
(6) This conclusion is contrary to that which has been propounded to explain the nonlinear dose curves obtained for specific locus mutations.
(7) Various theories about its pathogenesis have been propounded.
(8) A purely catabolic function of 5'-nucleotidase, as propounded in the literature, seems dubious since high 5'-nucleotidase activity was demonstrated in rapidly proliferating tissue too.
(9) Various theories on the best therapy have been propounded in the literature.
(10) In the light of two case-histories, one of which never published before, and on the basis of the Freudian theory of masochism, an interpretation of the data is propounded.
(11) This phenomenon is interpreted in the framework of an ongoing intergroup interaction among patients and between patients and staff, as conceptualized in the Tavistock Model propounded by Bion.
(12) However already propounded several years earlier by Leonhard, a distinction between bipolar and unipolar affective disorders has first been taken into general consideration during the last quarter of a century.
(13) In my book published in Paris (1986) I propound a new, radically different approach which takes into account Man's whole lifespan, without separating the various ages, and without separating old age from those that precede it.
(14) The pathoanatomic view ascribed to Virchow and propounded by Thomas Szasz has coexisted with the patient-centered or phenomenologic view for millenia.
(15) A clinical and mythological analysis is propounded.
(16) The efficacy of autogenous dermal grafts for carotid artery protection in head and neck surgery has been investigated experimentally and propounded clinically.
(17) The fact that I was originally one half of a duo gave rise to a theory, much propounded in newspaper profiles, that my life has been one desperate effort to compensate for that stillborn brother.
(18) On the basis of the analysis of five original and of 181 previously published observations since 1975: the histological, histogenetic, evolutive and epidemiologic patterns of renal angiomyolipoma are exposed; the symptoms at presentation and the clinical manifestations are analysed; some morbid associations of this affection are considered and, particularly, its particular relationship with the tuberous sclerosis is debated; the diagnosis of these angiomyolipomas is studied with special regard to the role of modern radiologic explorations; finally, is propounded a therapeutic codification, which relies mainly on surgery.
(19) Since the term traumatic pseudolipoma of the buccal mucosa was originally propounded to describe a traumatic herniation of the buccal fat pad, five additional cases have been reported.
(20) The traditional teaching of the subject in the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Rosario National University, Santa Fe, Rosario, Argentina, up to 1974 is subjected to critical analysis, and on this basis the need for the innovation is propounded and the method for applying it proposed.