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means strictly one who kidnaps a slave. Martial applies the word to the kidnappers of other men’s brains. Literary theft unacknowledged is called plagiarism. (Latin, plagiaʹrius.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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