unapocryphal

English

Alternative forms

unapocryphall (obsolete)

Etymology

From un- +‎ apocryphal.

Adjective

unapocryphal (comparative more unapocryphal, superlative most unapocryphal)

Not apocryphal; not of doubtful authority, authoritative
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 11:
  For books are as meats and viands are; ſome of good, ſome of evill ſubſtance; and yet God in that unapocryphall viſion, ſaid without exception, Riſe Peter, kill and eat, leaving the choice to each mans diſcretion.

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