Using another author's work as if it was one's own original work.
1 That harmonious plagiary and miserable flatterer, whose cursed hexameters were drilled into me at Harrow.
2 An insertion by a manifest plagiary into the work of a detected liar is not, usually, good evidence.
3 Thus Mr. Pope was obliged to represent this gentleman as a plagiary , or to pass for one himself.
4 I'll plead to intellectual plagiary .
5 Langbaine has injuriously treated Mr. Dryden, on account of his dramatic performances, and charges him as a licentious plagiary .
6 I resolved to attack his fame, and found some passages in cursory reading, which gave me hopes of stigmatizing him as a plagiary .
7 Nature seem'd here to have play'd the Plagiary , and to have molded into Substance the most refined Thoughts of inspired Poets.
8 [Page 334: Johnson not a plagiary .
9 (1046) The poetry is most uncouth and incorrect, but with infinite wit; especially one thing on plagiaries is equal to any thirty in Hudibras.
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