different between plagiary vs plagiarist

English

Alternative forms

• plagiarie [16th-17th c.]

Etymology

From Latin plagi?rius (“kidnapper, plagiarist”), from plagium (“kidnapping”), probably from plaga (“a net, snare, trap”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ple?d?(?)??i/

Noun

plagiary (countable and uncountable, plural plagiaries)

1. (archaic) A plagiarist.
   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

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

2. (obsolete) A kidnapper.
3. The crime of literary theft; plagiarism.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:

     Plagiarie had not its nativity with Printing, but began in times when thefts were difficult, and the paucity of Books scarce wanted that Invention.

   • accounted Plagiary

Derived terms

• plagiarism
• plagiarist

Adjective

plagiary (not comparable)

1. (archaic) plagiarizing
   • 1863, The Home and Foreign Review (issue 5, page 87)

     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, […]

Further reading

• plagiary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• plagiary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From plagiary +? -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ple?d????st/

Noun

plagiarist (plural plagiarists)

1. One who plagiarizes; or lifts the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his or her own, thus engaging in plagiarism; a literary thief

   Synonym: plagiary

Translations

Further reading

• plagiarist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• plagiarist in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.