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these two words escape me.
The first means: of unknown origin such as an ancient manuscript.
The second means: authorship credited after death
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The second means: authorship credited after death
is used in this context, but it's a more general term than just one referring to credit of authorship.
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posthumous! thank you.
the other is still haunting me. anyone?
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Anonymous probably isn't what you are looking for if you mean the origin rather than author is unknown. Is is a single word or would unknown provenance work?
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Perhaps for the first, apocryphal would do?
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cryptogenic has exactly that sense, but is usu. used of diseases.
anonymous, as was suggested, can take that sense.
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Unidentified, Obscure. Not so sure about the latter.
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Welcome, wutword. All I can recall ever seeing in, say, a dictionary is "origin unknown", but. Here's a link to a thesaurus response to my putting in the word "unknown": Roget Possibly one of these will be what you're looking for.
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APOCRYPHAL!!!!!!!!
thank you! That is the word!
My buttocks have seazed to itch.
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I am not sure whether that is a strange reaction to vocabulary expansion or if it should be a new thread under "Information and Announcement" Either way, congratulations. 
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My buttocks have seazed to itch. that sounds painful.
formerly known as etaoin...
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I'm happy to have helped you out! :0) I hate it when my buttocks itch, too... ;0)
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