1631. Brathwait, Whimsies, Zealous Brother, 119. He vents such unauthenticke stuffe, as it proves pregnantly from what spirit it comes.
1660. Gauden, God’s Gt. Demonstr., 51. Thy humane traditions, and unauthentick because uncatholick observations, instead of Christ’s institutions.
1778. Warton, Dissert., in Hist. Eng. Poetry (1781), p. xx. Shakespeare is thought to have formed his play [Anthony and Cleopatra] on this story from North’s translation of Amyot’s unauthentic French Plutarch.
1831–3. E. Burton, Eccl. Hist., xxii. (1845), 474. The evidence is equally unauthentic, which speaks of Zoticus, an Armenian Bishop, being put to death at this same period.
1851. I. Taylor, Wesley (1852), 132. But the Methodists took orders in another manner, less direct and explicit indeed, but yet … not unauthentic or unimportant.
