ANTILEGQMENA (AYrtXeybµEYa, contradicted, disputed), an epithet used by the early Christian writers to denote those books of the New Testament which, although sometimes publicly read in the churches, were not for a considerable time admitted to be genuine, or received into the canon of Scripture; and applied later to those New Testament books having but a doubtful place in the Canon (see BIBLE, New Testament, 1, Canon).