Thus " legend " gained its modern connotations of " undocumented " and " spurious ".

A persistent but spurious legend, however, claims that the Seljuq Sultan of Rum, Kayqubad I instead established Karamanid dynasty in these lands.

John Aubrey is responsible for the almost certainly spurious legend that Sutton was the original of Volpone the fox in Ben Jonson's Volpone.

This spurious contribution to the dark legend about the region was denounced by a Spanish intellectual, Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, who deemed that such information was " probably supplied by a disgruntled priest of the region " and that Madoz did not bother to verify it.

" is too loaded with spurious connotations to be meaningful ; but he proposed to replace all such questions with a specific operational test, which has become known as the Turing test.

This is totally spurious, since no matter who measured first the other will measure the opposite spin despite the fact that ( in theory ) the other has a 50 % ' probability ' ( 50: 50 chance ) of measuring the same spin, unless data about the first spin measurement has somehow passed faster than light ( of course TI gets around the light speed limit by having information travel backwards in time instead ).

There has been much speculation, much of it spurious, as to the reasons behind it.

However, this spurious usage has fallen out of favor.

The characteristics they shared with many Merovingian female saints may be mentioned: Regenulfa of Incourt, a 7th-century virgin in French-speaking Brabant of the ancestral line of the dukes of Brabant fled from a proposal of marriage to live isolated in the forest, where a curative spring sprang forth at her touch ; Ermelindis of Meldert, a 6th-century virgin related to Pepin I, inhabited several isolated villas ; Begga of Andenne, the mother of Pepin II, founded seven churches in Andenne during her widowhood ; the purely legendary " Oda of Amay " was drawn into the Carolingian line by spurious genealogy in her 13th-century vita, which made her the mother of Arnulf, Bishop of Metz, but she has been identified with the historical Saint Chrodoara ; finally, the widely-venerated Gertrude of Nivelles, sister of Begga in the Carolingian ancestry, was abbess of a nunnery established by her mother.

The elder Jaggard has seemed an odd choice to many commentators, given his problematical relationship with the Shakespeare canon: Jaggard issued the suspect collection The Passionate Pilgrim in 1599 and 1612, and in 1619 printed the so-called False Folio, ten pirated or spurious Shakespearean plays, some with false dates and title pages.

The end of the tapestry has been missing from time immemorial and the final titulus " Et fuga verterunt Angli " (" and the English left fleeing ") is said to be " entirely spurious ", added shortly before 1814 at a time of anti-English sentiment.

Coleman refers to the surname of the former BBC broadcaster David Coleman and the suffix-balls, as in " to balls up ", and has since spawned derivative terms in unrelated fields such as " Warballs " ( spurious references to the September 11, 2001 attacks ) and " Dianaballs " ( sentimental references to Diana, Princess of Wales ).

However, there is no consensus that the relationship has been demonstrated, and many consider the correspondences to be spurious for the reasons mentioned above.

Ovid includes an imagined reproachful letter from Oenone to Paris in his collection Heroides, a text that has been extended by a number of spurious post-Ovidian interpolations, which include a rape of Oenone by Apollo that is nowhere confirmed in other sources.

Historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke has described this membership roll and other, similar claims as " spurious " and " fanciful ", noting that Feder, Eckart and Rosenberg were never more than guests to whom the Thule Society extended hospitality during the Bavarian revolution of 1918, although he has more recently acknowledged that Hess and Frank were members of the Society before they came to prominence in the Nazi Party.

Presumably following Herodotus ' description, the occultist Eliphas Levi in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie ( 1855 ) called his goat-headed conception of Baphomet the " Baphomet of Mendes ", thus popularizing and perpetuating this incorrect attribution, which has given rise to a flood of spurious connections, such as " The Goat of Mendes " by the blackened death metal band Akercocke.

Allegations made by Balkan media sources of corruption and improper conduct by Ahtisaari were described by US State Department spokesman Tom Casey as " spurious ", adding that Ahtisaari's plan is the " best solution possible " and has the " full endorsement of the United States ".

A spurious Fourth book of occult philosophy, sometimes called Of Magical Ceremonies, has also been attributed to him ; this book first appeared in Marburg in 1559 and was certainly not by Agrippa.

The second movement is thought to be spurious, which has led to the belief that this arrangement is not Haydn's own.

" Since the publication of I Bernays ' investigations there has been no doubt that this work is spurious.

The time of Nell's birth is given in a horoscope, with perhaps spurious accuracy, as Saturday, 2 February 1650, at six o ' clock in the morning, though it has also been suggested that a birth around 1642 may be more likely.

A sixth passage which Polyhistor attributes to Eupolemus in Eusebius ' quotations of Polyhistor is usually considered spurious as being dissimilar to the other passages quoted and has come to be called Pseudo-Eupolemus.

Fajnzybler has made a distinction between systemic or authentic competitiveness, which is the ability to compete based on higher productivity, and spurious competitiveness, which is based on low wages.

It has been recommended that one disorder, Short Chain Acyl-coenzyme A Dehydrogenase Deficiency, or SCAD, be eliminated from screening programs, due to a " spurious association between SCAD and symptoms.

It has been omitted as spurious in many editions of the New Testament since the Reformation :— in the two first of Erasmus, in those of Aldus, Colinaus, Zwinglius, and lately of Griesbach.

This work is also known to be spurious ; it has been suggested that it was in fact by Cornelianus.

German-Swiss pathologist Edwin Klebs is sometimes noted for using the word " pseudohermaphroditism " in his taxonomy of intersexuality in 1876, although the word is clearly not his invention as is sometimes reported ; the history of the word " pseudohermaphrodite ," and the corresponding desire to separate " true " hermaphrodites from " false ," " spurious ," or " pseudo " hermaphrodites, dates back to at least 1709, when Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch used it in a publication describing a subject with testes and a mostly female phenotype.

The spurious invention of the atypicals can now be regarded as invention only, cleverly manipulated by the drug industry for marketing purposes and only now being exposed.

The term apocrypha is used with various meanings, including " hidden ", " esoteric ", " spurious ", " of questionable authenticity ", ancient Chinese " revealed texts and objects " and " Christian texts that are not canonical ".

Originally this sign ( or a plain line ) was used in ancient manuscripts to mark passages that were suspected of being corrupted or spurious.

* Numerous spurious claims regarding archaeological evidence to support statements in the Book of Mormon that ancient Israelites settled in the Americas during pre-historic times ( see Mormon archaeology ).

Therefore he had to import political symbols into Germany and justify their presence on the grounds of a spurious racial ancestry, the myth that ancient Greeks were among the ancestors of the Germans-linked to the same Aryan peoples.

The most remarkable, contained in his Chronologiae ex nummis antiquis restitutae ( 1696 ) and Prolegomena ad censuram veterum scriptorum, was to the effect that, with the exception of the works of Homer, Herodotus and Cicero, the Natural History of Pliny, the Georgics of Virgil, and the Satires and Epistles of Horace, all the ancient classics of Greece and Rome were spurious, having been manufactured by monks of the 13th century, under the direction of a certain Severus Archontius.

Tuccia was an ancient Roman Vestal Virgin whose chastity was questioned by a spurious accusation.

By the 5th century, this authentic collection had been enlarged by spurious letters, and some of the original letters had been changed with interpolations, created to posthumously enlist Ignatius as an unwitting witness in theological disputes of that age, while the purported eye-witness account of his martyrdom is also thought to be a forgery from around the same time.

An Austrian princely family, the Rosenberg changed its name to Ursini-Rosenberg ( and subsequently to Orsini-Rosenberg ) in 1683, while creating spurious claims of kinship to the Orsini, which were regarded at the time as more prestigious.

An aim of the doctrine of prima facie is to prevent litigants from bringing spurious charges which simply waste all other parties ' time.

In spite of this many records were lost because of spurious pickup at the time of the explosion that paralyzed the recording equipment.

At the same time as the Gleiwitz attack, there were other incidents orchestrated by Germany along the Polish-German border, such as house torching in the Polish Corridor and spurious propaganda output.

The remainder of its characteristics are very similar to the analog mixer for capture range, lock time, reference spurious and low-pass filter requirements.

In such cases a single-blind experimental protocol is required ; if the human observer does not know the sidereal time of the measurements, then even though the round-off is non-random it cannot introduce a spurious sidereal variation.

" ( 1926 ), an investigation of a form of spurious correlation, and " On a Method of Investigating Periodicities in Disturbed Series, with Special Reference to Wolfer's Sunspot Numbers " ( 1927 ), which used an autoregressive model to model the sunspot time series instead of the established periodogram method of Schuster.

* Patrick Kielty's Streets of Fundom, where Patrick Kielty proceeds to perform various completely spurious actions while roaming the streets of Britain, such as wearing a Viking helmet, climbing onto the back of a man dressed as a cartoon Hitler and then letting off party poppers each time he passes an elderly woman.

Trigger logic is another possible source of dead time ; beyond the proper time of the signal processing, spurious triggers caused by noise need to be taken into account.

Most antenna phase shifters operating at PRF above 1 kHz introduce spurious phase shift unless special provisions are made, such as reducing phase shifter settling time to a few dozen nanoseconds.

In May 1918, Figgis was arrested for his alleged part in the spurious German Plot a second time and again deported to England.

By the time the processor recognizes this INTR and issues an acknowledgment to read the IRQ from the 8259, the IRQ input may be deasserted, and the 8259 returns a spurious IRQ7.

Before the 1980s many economists used linear regressions on ( de-trended ) non-stationary time series data, which Nobel laureate Clive Granger and others showed to be a dangerous approach that could produce spurious correlation.

Example 3. 3. 2 shows that Crank – Nicolson is unconditionally stable when applied to .</ ref > However, the approximate solutions can still contain ( decaying ) spurious oscillations if the ratio of time step Δ times the thermal diffusivity to the square of space step, Δ, is large ( typically larger than 1 / 2 ).

An Irish Defence Forces spokesman described the claims of Squadron Leader Evers as " spurious " and said there was no evidence that an Irish Air Corps plane was in the vicinity at the time.

By the time of William Herschel astronomers recognized that the telescopic disks of stars were spurious and a function of the telescope as well as the brightness of the stars, but still spoke in terms of a star's size more than its brightness.

The only time that he is styled rex appears to be in the possibly genuine witness list attached to a spurious charter attributed to Cenred, King of Mercia in 709.