The act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own.
Hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it.
1 His whole talk was of this land; full of piracies , plagues and poisonings.
2 This was the latest in a string of piracies of vessels in that region.
3 The power to define and punish piracies and felonies
4 The confederation limits the jurisdiction to " piracies and felonies committed on the high seas."
5 The books came mostly from Garwater riding's piracies .
6 He staged his piracies to a theatrical frightfulness.
7 I am tired, my gay gardener, of all these piracies ; I have had enough of them.
8 When the intelligence of Kidd's piracies reached England, there was a storm of indignation in the country.
9 On October 26, Governor Acuña writes to the king a report on the piracies committed by the Moros.
10 Who were to be the subjects of their piracies was a matter that did not occur to them.
11 Little by little, day after day, piracies dwindled as the murderous submarine was mastered and its menace strangled.
12 He left a handsome property, the result of his various piracies , or, according to the usual euphemism, prizes.
13 To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations:
14 But what will you say to the piracies by which the traffic of the seas is intercepted, and Mr.
15 In the eastern seas, piracies were often committed on a large scale, and there was nothing violent in this supposition.
16 It could regulate prizes and subdue piracies on the high seas, but had no control over goods entering its own ports.
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