Crossword clues for piracies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Piracy \Pi"ra*cy\, n.; pl. Piracies. [Cf. LL. piratia, Gr. ?. See Pirate.]
The act or crime of a pirate.
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(Common Law) Robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a crime answering to robbery on land.
Note: By statute law several other offenses committed on the seas (as trading with known pirates, or engaging in the slave trade) have been made piracy.
``Sometimes used, in a quasi-figurative sense, of violation of copyright; but for this, infringement is the correct and preferable term.''
--Abbott.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of piracy English)
Usage examples of "piracies".
I am earnest for an agreement with the maritime powers of Europe, assigning them the task of keeping down the piracies of their seas and the cannibalisms of the African coasts, and to us, the suppression of the same enormities within our seas: and for this purpose, I should rejoice to see the fleets of Brazil and the United States riding together as brethren of the same family, and pursuing the same object.
In your day French depredations: in mine English, and the Berlin and Milan decrees: now the English orders of council, and the piracies they authorise: when these shall be over, it will be the impressment of our seamen, or something else: and so we have gone on, and so we shall go on, puzzled and prospering beyond example in the history of man.
Who could have imagined that the two most distinguished in the rank of nations, for science and civilization, would have suddenly descended from that honorable eminence, and setting at defiance all those moral laws established by the Author of nature between nation and nation, as between man and man, would cover earth and sea with robberies and piracies, merely because strong enough to do it with temporal impunity.
He is not without dissatisfaction, and reasonable dissatisfaction too, with the piracies of Baltimore.
That puts paid to that Spacedep stringy bean's charge that the boys had been wiping the memory clean every time they were ex-Doona while committing all those piracies and smugglings"
And we'll catch these crooks with their hands in their tills, we'll stamp out their piracies for the common good.
All our people to worry about and our House, all our enemies, all the unexpected catastrophes of nature and of man that seem to be ever present and all the sins and piracies and devil's work of the past that are waiting to burst forth from our own Pandora's box as they do from time to time.
All our people to worry about and our House, all our enemies, all the unexpected catastrophes of nature and of man that seem to be ever present-and all the sins and piracies and devil's work of the past that are waiting to burst forth from our own Pandora's box as they do from time to time.
That puts paid to that Spacedep stringy bean's charge that the boys had been wiping the memory clean every time they were ex-Doona while committing all those piracies and smugglings' "That's right, Mrs.