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piracy|ˈpaɪərəsɪ|
Also 6–8 pyr-; 6–7 -cye, -cie, -sie.
[ad. med.L. pirātīa, a. Gr. πειρᾱτεία piracy, f. πειρᾱτής pirate: see -acy.]
The action or practice of a pirate.
1. a. The practice or crime of robbery and depredation on the sea or navigable rivers, etc., or by descent from the sea upon the coast, by persons not holding a commission from an established civilized state; with a and pl., a single act or crime of this kind.
[1419Charta Hen. V in Rymer Fœdera IX. 754/2 Per modum Piratiæ.] a1552Leland Itin. III. 33 Partely by Feates of Warre, partely by Pyracie. 1556Acts Privy Council (1892) V. 358 He complained of a pyracie doone upon him by certain Englishe pirates. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1359/1 Fleeing first out of England for notable pirasies, and out of Ireland for trecheries not pardonable. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 224 On those coasts he rather exerciseth Pyracie, than Dominion. 1702Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) V. 198 Condemned by the court of admiralty for 4 several pyracies. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. xxxiii. 5 Those Portugueze..betook themselves to Piracy among the Islands, at the Mouth of Ganges. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. i. 213 The Vikings confined their odious piracies to the Baltic. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 241 The total suppression of piracy by Pompey had rendered the Mediterranean safe.
fig.1897Marquis of Salisbury Sp. in Ho. Lords 16 July, It was feared..that under the appearance of educational reform a scheme of what he might call theological piracy would spring up.
b. Physical Geogr. = capture n. 1 b.
1904Chamberlin & Salisbury Geol. I. iii. 99 The foregoing case may be called foreign piracy because the valleys of different systems are concerned. Domestic piracy may also take place... Here a tributary to a crooked river may develop, working back until it taps the main at a higher point. 1939Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. L. 1350 The stream pattern indicates that recent piracies have occurred. 1957G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 114 A wide valley, the main stream of which has been reduced by piracy. 1974C. H. Crickmay Work of River iii. 62 Stream piracy.., of course, is not in every case effected by headwater extension.
2. fig. The appropriation and reproduction of an invention or work of another for one's own profit, without authority; infringement of the rights conferred by a patent or copyright.
1771Luckombe Hist. Print. 76 They..would suffer by this act of piracy, since it was likely to prove a very bad edition. 1808Med. Jrnl. XIX. 520 He is charged with ‘Literary Piracy’, and an ‘unprincipled suppression of the source from whence he drew his information’. 1855Brewster Newton I. iv. 71 With the view of securing his invention of the telescope from foreign piracy. |