plagiary

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CIDE DICTIONARY

plagiary, v. i.

To commit plagiarism. [1913 Webster]

plagiary, n. [L. plagiarius a kidnaper, a literary thief, fr. plagium kidnaping; cf. plaga a net, perh. akin to E. plait: cf. F. plagiaire.].

A manstealer; a kidnaper. [1913 Webster]
One who purloins another's expressions or ideas, and offers them as his own; a plagiarist. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Plagiarism; literary theft. Milton. [1913 Webster]

plagiary, a.

Kidnaping. E. Browne. [1913 Webster]
Practicing plagiarism. Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster]

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ROGET THESAURUS

plagiary

Stealing

N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.