plagiaristn.

1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 56 The Author (..I should say the Collector or Plagiarist).

1704 I. Sharpe Plain-dealing 27 Mr. Norris..will con him Thanks for that Noble Character of a Plagiarist.

1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. i A dexterous plagiarist..might take out some of the best things in my tragedy, and put them into his own comedy.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. viii. 197 The poorest of all plagiarists, the plagiarists of words.

1866–7 S. Baring-Gould Curious Myths Middle Ages (1894) 172 The story spread among the mediæval chroniclers, who were great plagiarists.

1914 M. Rooses Art in Flanders iii. 163 The plagiarists of the Italian style lost more and more the Flemish qualities which were still admired in the first Romanist painters, Gossaert and Van Orley.

1955 Sci. Amer. July 69/3 We then spoke of Newton's controversy with Leibniz over the invention of the calculus, and how Newton had attempted to prove that his German contemporary was a plagiarist.

2002 A. Louth St John Damascene ii. 26 By modern standards..John..was simply a skilful plagiarist.

1821 T. G. Wainewright Ess. & Crit. (1880) 150 The whole series was cold, commonplace, and plagiaristic.

1838 Fraser's Mag. 18 545 There is risk..in any or all of these plagiaristic devices.

1994 H. Bloom Western Canon iv. xxi. 472 It is related to the realization that all literature is plagiaristic to some degree, an insight that Borges owes to Thomas De Quincey, English Romantic essayist, exuberantly self-conscious plagiarist.

1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 93/2 They..have very unhandsomely and plagiaristically anticipated my own original lucubrations.

1854 L. Marsh Apocatastasis 102 The ancients, I think, conjectured more philosophically than we; except where we, not merely apocatastatically, but very plagiaristically, bring forward the identical dogmas of the ancients as our own.

1984 Shakespeare Q. 35 197/2 The notes were genuinely Whalley's, and were copied out and claimed, plagiaristically, by Steevens after Whalley's death.