plagiary

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The crime of literary theft; plagiarism.

   “accounted Plagiary”

   “Plagiarie had not its nativity with printing; but began in times when thefts were difficult, and the paucity of books ſcarce wanted that invention.”

2. (archaic, countable, uncountable)A plagiarist.

   “He [Ben Jonson] vvas not onely a profeſſed Imitator of Horace, but a learned Plagiary of all the others; you track him every vvhere in their Snovv: […]”

   “Without Invention a Painter is but a Copier, and a Poet but a Plagiary of others.”

3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A kidnapper.

adj

1. (archaic, not-comparable)plagiarizing

   “The busy bee is his classical device, and the simile confesses and justifies his plundering propensities; but the plagiary poet who steals ideas is represented by another insect, […]”