a. and sb. Obs. Also apocrif(e. [a. Fr. apocryphe, f. L. apocrypha: see next.] By-form of next.
A. adj. Of unestablished authenticity, apocryphal.
1548. Coverdale, Erasm. Paraphr. Jude, 21. The boke of Enoch which is Apocryphe, that is to say, without autoritie.
B. sb. An apocryphal document.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., III. xii. 356. The contrarie parti is an apocrif. Ibid., 366. The seid epistle is an untrewe Apocrife.
