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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 692 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PLAGIARISM , an See also:

appropriation or copying from the See also:work of another, in literature or See also:art, and the passing off of the same as See also:original or without See also:acknowledgment of the real authorship or source. The See also:Lat. plagiaries meant a kidnapper, stealer or abductor of a slave or See also:child, though it Yolk-See also:sac is also used in the See also:modern sense of a See also:literary pilferer or purloiner by See also:Martial (I. 53, 9). The word plagium is used in the See also:Digest of the offence of See also:kidnapping or See also:abduction, and the ultimate source is probably to be found in plaga, See also:net, snare, See also:trap, cognate with Gr. sr)sExeiv, to weave, See also:plait. The See also:idea of plagiarism as a wrong is comparatively modern, and has grown up with the increasing sense of See also:property in See also:works of the See also:intellect.

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