Crossword clues for plagiary
plagiary
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plagiary \Pla"gia*ry\, a.
Kidnaping. [Obs.]
--E. Browne.Practicing plagiarism.
--Bp. Hall.
Plagiary \Pla"gia*ry\, v. i. To commit plagiarism.
Plagiary \Pla"gia*ry\, n.; pl. Plagiaries. [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. [Obs.]
One who purloins another's expressions or ideas, and offers them as his own; a plagiarist.
--Dryden.Plagiarism; literary theft.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) A plagiarist. 2 (context obsolete English) A kidnapper. 3 The crime of literary theft; plagiarism.
Usage examples of "plagiary".
However, it also was severely criticized as a plagiary of the Finnish epic poem Kalevala.
Nay, in the hope of vindicating his own penetration, he took an opportunity of questioning Ferdinand in private concerning the circumstances of the translation, and our hero, perceiving his drift, gave him such artful and ambiguous answers, as persuaded him that the young Count had acted the part of a plagiary, and that the other had been restrained from doing himself justice, by the consideration of his own dependence.
I know nothing more contemptible in a writer than the character of a plagiary, which he here fixes at a venture.
It's all like, it's like a kind of plagiary, like Gottschalk composing his bar room player piano music fifty years before the player was invented, like my own ideas being stolen before I even had them since I'm clearly the one person qualified for a piece of work like this one, first because I can't read music and can't play anything but a comb.