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Plagiary   Listen
noun
Plagiary  n.  (pl. plagiaries)  
1.
A manstealer; a kidnaper. (Obs.)
2.
One who purloins another's expressions or ideas, and offers them as his own; a plagiarist.
3.
Plagiarism; literary theft.





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"Plagiary" Quotes from Famous Books



... this, will any one accuse me for a plagiary, and that I steal from the most common places? No matter. I have company enough: do not all modern authors do so? However, I shall not, for all that, pass over in silence what Ovid has said of this same drunkenness. ...
— Ebrietatis Encomium - or, the Praise of Drunkenness • Boniface Oinophilus
... be amused with the following testy note of my vigilant translator, M. Crapelet: the very Sir Fretful Plagiary of the minor tribe of French critics! "Cette phrase, qui n'est pas Francaise, est ainsi rapportee par l'auteur. M. l'Abbe Betencourt, aura dit a peu pres: "Il mourra sans laisser d'eleve." M. Dibdin qui parle et entend fort bien le Francais, EST IL ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two • Thomas Frognall Dibdin


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