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
Thus Mr. Pope was obliged to represent this gentleman as a plagiary, or to pass for one himself.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Theophilus Cibber
For result we found that beyond a doubt the magazinist had "skinned" his article out of Stedman's chapter—in other words, that he had in effect plagiarized his charge of plagiary and the proofs of it.
From Recollections of a Varied Life by George Cary Eggleston
There is another sort of jay, The number of its legs the same, Which makes of borrow'd plumes display, And plagiary is its name.
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Elizur Wright
Burns's poem, the Vision, supposed plagiary in, 206.
From Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 3, January-June, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
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
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
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
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