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Definition of Spurious

1. Adjective. Plausible but false. "Spurious inferences"

2. Adjective. Born out of wedlock. "The dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"

3. Adjective. Intended to deceive. "A spurious work of art"

Definition of Spurious

1. a. Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate.

Definition of Spurious

1. Adjective. false, not authentic, not genuine ¹

2. Adjective. (archaic) bastardly, illegitimate ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spurious

1. not genuine [adj]

Medical Definition of Spurious

1. 1. Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate. 2. Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue. "Her spurious firstborn. " Spurious primary, or Spurious quill, the bastard wing, or alula. Synonym: Counterfeit, false, adulterate, supposititious, fictitious, bastard. Origin: L. Spurius. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spurious

spurgalls spurge spurge family spurge laurel spurge nettle spurges spurgewort spurgeworts spuria spuriae

spurion spurionic spurions spuriosities spuriosity spurious (current term) spurious ankylosis spurious cast spurious correlation spurious infection

spurious infections spurious meningocele spurious pregnancy spurious torticollis spurious wing spuriously spuriousness spuriousnesses spurless spurlge

Literary usage of Spurious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO THE spurious EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. To the following introductory note of the translators nothing need be prefixed, except a grateful ..."

2. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (2001)
"... iv) gives to Chetwood the coup de grace in the present instance : ' the spelling of " wythe " is sufficient to condemn the title as spurious. ..."

3. A Treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhood by Job Lewis Smith (1869)
"HE disease designated spurious hydrocephalus might with more propriety be ... The state of the brain in spurious hydrocephalus is not the same in all cases. ..."

4. A Treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhood by Job Lewis Smith (1886)
"The state of the brain in spurious hydrocephalus is not the same in all cases. In some there is no .appreciable anatomical alteration in this organ. ..."

5. Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic Delivered at King's by Thomas Watson, David Francis Condie (1855)
"Melanosis of the Lung ; true, and spurious. ... This morbid state has been called spurious melanosis. The lungs are found after death to be throughout of a ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"21.1 The opinion, attributed to Chief Baron Comyns, (1 Atk. 375,) that the consent of the majority of trustees to marriage is sufficient, spurious, [p. 24. ..."

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