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Plagiary

//ˈpleɪdʒ(ɪ)əɹi// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    plagiarizing archaic, not-comparable

    "The busy bee is his classical device, and the simile confesses and justifies his plundering propensities; but the plagiary poet who steals ideas is represented by another insect, […]"

Noun
  1. 1
    The crime of literary theft; plagiarism. countable, uncountable

    "accounted Plagiary"

  2. 2
    A plagiarist. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "He [Ben Jonson] vvas not onely a profeſſed Imitator of Horace, but a learned Plagiary of all the others; you track him every vvhere in their Snovv: […]"

  3. 3
    A kidnapper. countable, obsolete, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin plagiārius (“kidnapper, plagiarist”), from plagium (“kidnapping”), probably from plaga (“a net, snare, trap”).

Etymology 2

From Latin plagiārius (“kidnapper, plagiarist”), from plagium (“kidnapping”), probably from plaga (“a net, snare, trap”).

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