pseudepigraphous

English

Etymology

pseudo- +‎ epigraph +‎ -ous

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsuːdɪˈpɪɡɹəfəs/, /ˌsjuːdɪˈpɪɡɹəfəs/

Adjective

pseudepigraphous (not comparable)

1. Inscribed with a false name.
   • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:

     Now as concerning Herodotus, who supposing Homer and Hesiod to have been the ancientest of all the Greek poets, seemed therefore to conclude the Orphic poems to have been pseudepigraphous

References

“pseudepigraphous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.