plagiary

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pla=gia=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

plagiary, v. i. 

 To commit plagiarism.  [1913 Webster]

plagiary, n. [L. plagiarius a kidnaper, a literary thief, fr. plagium kidnaping; cf. plaga a net, perh. akin to E. plait: cf. F. plagiaire.].

•  A manstealer; a kidnaper.  [1913 Webster]
•  One who purloins another's expressions or ideas, and offers them as his own; a plagiarist.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
•  Plagiarism; literary theft.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

plagiary, a. 

•  Kidnaping.  E. Browne.  [1913 Webster]
•  Practicing plagiarism.  Bp. Hall.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

plagiary

Stealing

N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.