plagiary

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin plagiārius (“kidnapper, plagiarist”), from plagium (“kidnapping”), probably from plaga (“a net, snare, trap”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpleɪdʒ(ɪ)əɹi/

Noun

plagiary (countable and uncountable, plural plagiaries)

  1. (archaic) A plagiarist.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
  2. (obsolete) A kidnapper.
  3. The crime of literary theft; plagiarism.
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:
      Plagiarie had not its nativity with Printing, but began in times when thefts were difficult, and the paucity of Books scarce wanted that Invention.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • plagiary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • plagiary in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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