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ˈarch-ˈpirate
[f. arch- 1, after L. archipīrāta, ad. Gr. ἀρχιπειρᾱτής.]
A chief pirate; a pirate captain. Also transf. of literary piracy.
1489Caxton Faytes Armes ii. ix. 107 An archepyrate, that is to say a grete thef of the see. 1567Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 382 The Pope..called him Arch-pirate, Arch-heretike, and Apostata. 1577Holinshed Chron. I. 58/1 One of the mates slew the archpirat or capteine rover as I may call him. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 144 Hasting, a Norman Arch⁓pirate. a1797H. Walpole George II (1847) I. xii. 395 A sea-captain..gave the first claims to kings and archpirates over an unknown tract of country. 1828Southey To A. Cunningham, The Arch-Pirate Galignani hath prefix'd, A spurious portrait to a faithless life. |