deuterocanonical books

deuterocanonical books
/dooh"teuh roh keuh non"i keuhl, dyooh"-, dooh'-, dyooh'-/
the books of the Bible regarded by the Roman Catholic Church as canonical but not universally acknowledged as such in the early church, including, in the Old Testament, most of the Protestant Apocrypha.
[1720-30; DEUTERO- + CANONICAL]

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      biblical literature accepted in the Roman canon but treated as apocryphal by Jewish and Protestant canons; also, an authentic biblical work added to the canon later. See apocrypha.

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