Using another author's work as if it was one's own original work.
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That harmonious plagiary and miserable flatterer, whose cursed hexameters were drilled into me at Harrow.
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An insertion by a manifest plagiary into the work of a detected liar is not, usually, good evidence.
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Thus Mr. Pope was obliged to represent this gentleman as a plagiary, or to pass for one himself.
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I'll plead to intellectual plagiary.
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Langbaine has injuriously treated Mr. Dryden, on account of his dramatic performances, and charges him as a licentious plagiary.
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I resolved to attack his fame, and found some passages in cursory reading, which gave me hopes of stigmatizing him as a plagiary.
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Nature seem'd here to have play'd the Plagiary, and to have molded into Substance the most refined Thoughts of inspired Poets.
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[Page 334: Johnson not a plagiary.
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(1046) The poetry is most uncouth and incorrect, but with infinite wit; especially one thing on plagiaries is equal to any thirty in Hudibras.