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plagiary, n. and a.|ˈpleɪdʒɪərɪ|
[ad. L. plagiārius one who abducts the child or slave of another, a kidnapper; a seducer; also (Mart. i. 53. 9) a literary thief. Cf. late L. plagium kidnapping, plagiāre to kidnap. So F. plagiaire (16th c.) a plagiarist.]
A. n.
†1. A kidnapper, a man-stealer. Obs.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage iii. iii. 199 In the time of his..childhood, he was by some Plagiary stolne away from his friends. 1626H. King Serm. Deliverance 46 How many be there..that, like Plagiaries, make it their trade to hunt and catch men? 1697Bp. Patrick Comm. Exod. xx. 16 No Israelite would buy him, and therefore such Plagiaries sold him to Men of other Nations.
2. = plagiarist.
1601B. Jonson Poetaster iv. iii, Why? the ditt' is all borrowed; 'tis Horaces: hang him plagiary. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. i. Ad Sect. viii. 119 He that is a Plagiary of others titles or offices, and dresses himself with their beauties. 1676Lister in Ray's Corr. (1848) 125, I am glad you have discovered those authors to be plagiaries. 1758Johnson Idler No. 85 ⁋7 Compilers and plagiaries are encouraged, who give us again what we had before. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xix. IV. 354 Blount was one of the most unscrupulous plagiaries that ever lived.
3. = plagiarism 1; literary theft. [Cf. -ary B. 1.]
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 22 Plagiarie had not its nativitie with printing, but began in times when thefts were difficult. 1688G. Langbaine (title) Momus Triumphans: or, the Plagiaries of the English Stage; Expos'd in a catalogue of all the Comedies, Opera's,..&c. 1775Sheridan Rivals Pref., My first wish in attempting a play was to avoid every appearance of plagiary. 1880Swinburne Study Shaks. 52 No parasitic rhymester..ever uttered a more parrot-like note of plagiary.
b. = plagiarism 2.
1677E. Browne Trav. Germ. etc. 108 Hoping to find better Markets for their Plagiaries and Depredations. 1818Hobhouse Hist. Illustr. (ed. 2) 415 The plagiaries, if they may so be called, are inserted with considerable taste and effect. 1865Athenæum 13 May 658/1 The attitudes..are..not plagiaries.
4. Comb., as plagiary-like adj. or adv.
1662Evelyn Chalcogr. v. 117 Taken out of the prints of Albert Durer..not for want of invention and plagiary like.
B. adj.
†1. Kidnapping, man-stealing. rare—1.
1673E. Browne Trav. (1685) 49 Some [fell into that condition] by Treachery, some by Chance of War; others by Plagiary and Man-stealing Tartars.
†2. That plagiarizes; plagiarizing. Obs.
1597–8Bp. Hall Sat. iv. ii. 84 Alike to thee as lieve As..an hos ego from old Petrarch's spright Unto a plagiary sonnet wright. 1620― Hon. Mar. Clergy i. §26 The plagiary priest, hauing stolne this whole passage..verbatim out of Bellarmine. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. ii. v. §2 This was the Plagiary Prophet.
3. Obtained by plagiarism; plagiarized. ? Obs.
1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 14 Nought..but plagiary stuff, By which they purchase praise and money. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 561 A quadrant, by Mr. Godfrey, called by the plagiary name of Hadley's quadrant. 1820Hermit in London IV. 162 Second-hand puns and plagiary remarks.
Hence ˈplagiaryship, the function or action of a plagiarist, plagiarism.
a1661Fuller Worthies iii. Warwick. (1662) 128 Rider after Thomas his death, set forth his Dictionary, the same in effect, under his own Name,..being but little disguised with any Additions. Such Plagiary-ship ill becometh Authors or Printers. |