plagiary
English
Alternative forms
- plagiarie [16th-17th c.]
Etymology
From Latin plagiārius (“kidnapper, plagiarist”), from plagium (“kidnapping”), probably from plaga (“a net, snare, trap”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpleɪdʒ(ɪ)əɹi/
Noun
plagiary (countable and uncountable, plural plagiaries)
- (archaic) A plagiarist.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- (obsolete) A kidnapper.
- The crime of literary theft; plagiarism.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:
- Plagiarie had not its nativity with Printing, but began in times when thefts were difficult, and the paucity of Books scarce wanted that Invention.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:
Derived terms
Adjective
plagiary (not comparable)
- (archaic) plagiarizing
- 1863, The Home and Foreign Review (issue 5, page 87)
- 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, […]
- 1863, The Home and Foreign Review (issue 5, page 87)
Further reading
- plagiary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- plagiary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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