Adjective:

उपनाम से लिखनेवाला, असत्य वाक्य-संबंधी,

pseudonymous's Usage Examples:

ARISTEAS, the pseudonymous author of a famous Letter in which is described, in legendary form, the origin of the Greek translation of the Old Testament known as the Septuagint.

Pseudonymous epistles were especially numerous under the early Roman empire, and mainly attached themselves to the names of Plato, Demosthenes, Aristotle and Cicero.

An adequate monograph on ancient pseudonymous literature remains to be written; meantime, further reference may be made to the older essays of Mosheim (Dissertatio de caussis suppositorum librorum inter Christianos saeculi primi et secundi, 1 733); Bentley's Dissertation on Phalaris, pp. 80 seq.; K.

It seems on the whole most probable that 2 Peter is not a genuine work, but that it came from the same factory of pseudonymous Petrine writings as the Apocalypse which bears the same name, though the one has, and the other has not, obtained a place within the Canon.

Hence we conclude that the grounds are lacking which would entitle our assuming a priori that the Apocalypse is pseudonymous.

Moreover, the chief ground for the development of a pseudonymous literature was absent in the early Christian church.

The chief ground for resorting to pseudonymous authorship in Judaism was that the belief in prophecy was lost among the people.

Each fresh apocalypse would in the eyes of its writer be in some degree but a fresh edition of the traditions naturally attaching themselves to great names in Israel's past, and thus the books named respectively Enoch, Noah, Ezra would to some slight extent be not pseudonymous.

Moreover, there was a sense in which such books were not wholly pseudonymous.

All the Jewish apocalypses are pseudonymous, and all the Christian with the exception of the Shepherd of Hermas.

Synonyms:

onymous,

Antonyms:

anon., anonymous,