antilegomena
[an-ti-luh-gom-uh-nuh]
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noun (used with a singular verb)
a group of books in the New Testament, generally held to be uncanonical by the early church.
Compare homologumena.
Origin of antilegomena
1840–50; < Greek: things spoken against, neuter plural of antilegómenos (passive present participle of antilégein to speak against), equivalent to anti- anti- + lego- speak + -menos passive present participle suffix
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Historical Examples of antilegomena
The grounds on which each of the disputed books—Antilegomena, chap.
Companion to the BibleE. P. Barrows
The inventive minds of scholars designated a group of writings in the Alexandrian canon as "Antilegomena."
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)Adolph Harnack