Word Meanings - PLAGIARIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.

Related words: (words related to PLAGIARIST)

• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• THIEF
  thiaf, OS. theof, thiof, D. dief, G. dieb, OHG. diob, Icel. , Sw. tjuf, Dan. tyv, Goth. , , and perhaps to Lith. tupeti to squat or 1. One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft. There came a privy thief, men clepeth
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• THIEFLY
  Like a thief; thievish; thievishly. Chaucer.
• ANOTHER-GAINES
  Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
• PLAGIARY
  To commit plagiarism.
• LITERARY
  1. Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. Johnson.
• ANOTHER-GATES
  Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• SWORDSMAN
  1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
• SEA THIEF
  A pirate. Drayton.
• WATER THIEF
  A pirate. Shak.
• TITANOTHERIUM
  A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.
• LEGO-LITERARY
  Pertaining to the literature of law.
• COMPASSES
  An instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move. Note: The compasses for drawing circles have adjustable pen points,