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plagiary en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˈpleɪdʒ(ɪ)əɹi/ (UK)
Etymology
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Latin plagium
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Latin plagiārius
English plagiary
From Latin plagiārius (“kidnapper, plagiarist”), from plagium (“kidnapping”), probably from plaga (“a net, snare, trap”).
Meanings
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(archaic, not-comparable) plagiarizing
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, number 5, page 87:
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plagiary en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ˈpleɪdʒ(ɪ)əɹi/ (UK)
Etymology
Etymology tree
Latin plagium
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Latin plagiārius
English plagiary
From Latin plagiārius (“kidnapper, plagiarist”), from plagium (“kidnapping”), probably from plaga (“a net, snare, trap”).
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The crime of literary theft; plagiarism.
accounted Plagiary
1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:Plagiarie had not its nativity with printing; but began in times when thefts were difficult, and the paucity of books ſcarce wanted that invention.
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:
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(archaic, countable, uncountable) A plagiarist.
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: […]
1668, John Dryden, Of Dramatick Poesie, an Essay, London: […] [Thomas Newcombe] for Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, page 14:Without Invention a Painter is but a Copier, and a Poet but a Plagiary of others.
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:
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable) A kidnapper.
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plagiaristic · plagiarist · plagiarise · plagiarism