Meaning of plagiary | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The crime of literary theft; plagiarism.
   countable, uncountable
2. A plagiarist.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
3. A kidnapper.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“accounted Plagiary”

“Plagiarie had not its nativity with printing; but began in times when thefts were difficult, and the paucity of books ſcarce wanted that invention.”

“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: […]”

“Without Invention a Painter is but a Copier, and a Poet but a Plagiary of others.”

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