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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"
Similar to: Counterfeit, Imitative
Derivative terms: Spuriousness
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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spurious
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. ..."