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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.</def>

<blockquote>The passages . . . are, however, in part from <b>apocryphal</b> or fictitious works. <i>Sir G. C. Lewis.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Apocryphalist</h1> <Xpage=69>

<hw>A*poc"ry*phal*ist</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who believes in, or defends, the Apocrypha.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Apocryphally</h1> <Xpage=69>

<hw>A*poc"ry*phal*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an apocryphal manner; mythically; not indisputably.</def>

<h1>Apocryphalness</h1> <Xpage=69>

<hw>A*poc"ry*phal*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality or state of being apocryphal; doubtfulness of credit or genuineness.</def>

<mhw><h1>Apocynaceous, Apocyneous</h1> <Xpage=69>

<hw>A*poc`y*na"ceous</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>Ap`o*cyn"e*ous</hw><mhw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ dogbane; <?/ from + <?/ dog.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Belonging to, or resembling, a family of plants, of which the dogbane <spn>(Apocynum)</spn> is the type.</def>

<h1>Apocynin</h1> <Xpage=69>

<hw>A*poc"y*nin</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <ets>Apocynum</ets>, the generic name of dogbane.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A bitter principle obtained from the dogbane <spn>(Apocynum cannabinum)</spn>.</def>

<h1>Apod, Apodal</h1> <Xpage=69>

<hw><hw>Ap"od</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>Ap"o*dal</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Apod</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Without feet; footless.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Destitute of the ventral fin, as the eels.</def>

<h1>Apod, Apode</h1> <Xpage=69>

<hw><hw>Ap"od</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>Ap"ode</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Apods</plw> <tt>(#)</tt> or <plw>Apodes</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[Gr. <?/, <?/, footless; <?/ priv. + <?/, <?/, foot.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>One of certain animals that have no feet or footlike organs; esp. one of certain fabulous birds which were said to have no feet.</def>

<note>&hand; The bird of paradise formerly had the name <spn>Paradisea apoda</spn>, being supposed to have no feet, as these were wanting in the specimens first obtained from the East Indies.</note>

<h1>Apoda</h1> <Xpage=69>

<hw>Ap"o*da</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/, <?/. See <er>Apod</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>An order of Amphibia without feet. See <er>Ophiomorpha</er>.</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>A group of worms without appendages, as the leech.</def>

<h1>Apodan</h1> <Xpage=69>

<hw>Ap"o*dan</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Apodal.</def>

<h1>Apodeictic, Apodictic, Apodeictical, Apodictical</h1> <Xpage=69>

<hw><hw>Ap"o*deic"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>Ap`o*dic"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>Ap`o*deic"tic*al</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>Ap`o*dic"tic*al</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>apodicticus</ets>, Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ to point out, to show by argument; <?/ from + <?/ to show.]</ety> <def>Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction.</def>

<i>Brougham. Sir Wm. Hamilton.</i>

<mhw><h1>Apodeictically, Apodictically</h1> <Xpage=69>

<hw>Ap`o*deic"tic*al*ly</hw>, <hw>Ap`o*dic"tic*al*ly</hw></mhw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>So as to be evident beyond contradiction.</def>

<h1>Apodeme</h1> <Xpage=69>