plagiary
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Origin of plagiary
1590–1600; < Latin plagiārius kidnapper, equivalent to plagi ( um ) kidnapping (akin to plaga snare) + -ārius -ary
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The case follows that of the family of Marvin Gaye successfully suing Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke for plagiary on their hit Blurred Lines.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2015
Why, the ditty's all borrowed; 'tis Horace's: hang him, plagiary!
From The Poetaster by Ben Jonson
But here, while writing about plagiarism, I have been myself a plagiary; and it shall not remain without acknowledgment, having suffered somewhat in that sort myself.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
He is allowed to have been a scholar, and to have understood and practised the dramatic rules; but Dryden proves him to have likewise been an unbounded plagiary.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. by Theophilus Cibber
Yet the problem does not resolve itself into the simple question whether Pandolfini or Alberti was the plagiary.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
At the same time he denounced the authors, so as to disincline the reader to look into their pages for the D'Israelian plagiaries.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake
These gentlemen are undoubtedly the first plagiaries that pretend to make a reputation, by stealing from a man's works in his own life-time, and out of a public print.'
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Theophilus Cibber
And thus he still, new plagiaries seeking, Reversed ventriloquism's trick, For, 'stead of Dick thro' others speaking, 'Twas others we heard speak thro' Dick.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
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