"ascription of false authorship to a book," 1842, probably via German or French from Modern Latin pseudepigrapha; see pseudo- + epigraph + -y (1). Related: Pseudepigraphia; pseudepigraphic (1830); pseudepigraphical (1838); pseudepigraphal (1630s).
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