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unauˈthentic, a. (un-1 7 and 5 b.)
1631R. Brathwait Whimzies, Zealous Brother 119 He vents such unauthenticke stuffe, as it proves pregnantly from what spirit it comes. 1660Gauden God's Gt. Demonstr. 51 Thy humane traditions, and unauthentick because uncatholick observations, instead of Christ's institutions. 1778Warton 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. 1831–3E. 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. 1851I. Taylor Wesley (1852) 132 But the Methodists took orders in another manner, less direct and explicit indeed, but yet..not unauthentic or unimportant. |