plagiarise

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

verb take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property

From plagiary + -ise, ultimately from Latin plagiare (“to kidnap, to abduct”).

And he plagiarised from the Little Cyrus, and the Lesser Hercules, of Antisthenes, and from the Alcibiades, and from the Dialogues of the other philosophers. — The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes Laertius
Many have adopted Nietzsche’s mannerisms and word-coinages, who had nothing in common with him beyond the ideas and “business” they plagiarised; but the superficial observer and a large portion of the public, not knowing of these things,—not knowing perhaps that there are iconoclasts who destroy out of love and are therefore creators, and that there are others who destroy out of resentment and revengefulness and who are therefore revolutionists and anarchists,—are prone to confound the two, to the detriment of the nobler type. — Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

plagiarize, lift

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