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
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Noun
plagiary (countable and uncountable, plural plagiaries)
- The crime of literary theft; plagiarism.
- 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
- accounted Plagiary
- 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of Adherence unto Antiquity”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 16:
- Plagiarie had not its nativity with printing; but began in times when thefts were difficult, and the paucity of books ſcarce wanted that invention.
- (archaic) A plagiarist.
- 1695, John Dryden, “Preface of the Translator, with a Parallel, of Poetry and Painting”, in C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC, page xxxiv:
- Without Invention a Painter is but a Copier, and a Poet but a Plagiary of others.
- (obsolete) A kidnapper.
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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “plagiary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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