plagioclase (plajioklaz)

[ and species, oligoclase, andesin, labra forth as one's own; specifically, the offense of taking pa ages from another's compositions, and publishing them, either word for word or in substance, as one's own; literary theft. Sir J. Reynolds has been accused of plagiarism for having borrowed attitudes from ancient masters. Not only candour but criticism must deny the force of the charge. Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting, IV., adv. p. vii., note. 2. A pa age or thought thus stolen. plagiarist (plā'ji-a-rist), n. [ You glean from the refuse of obscure volumes, where more judicious plagiarists have been before you; so that the body of your work is a composition of dregs and sediments like a bad tavern's worst wine. plagiarize (plā'ji-a-r Sheridan , The Critic, i. 1. (plā'ji-a-rīz), v .; pret. and pp. plagi- arized , ppr. plagiarizing . [ plagiar - y + -ize .] I. trans . To steal or purloin from the writings or ideas of another: as, to plagiarize a pa age. II. in trans. To commit plagiarism. Also spelled plagiarise . no by us. Several species inhabit East Indian seas. P. placenta is known as the window - shell , P. sella as the Placunidæ (pla-kūni-dē), n. pl . [NL., Pla- cuna + -idæ.] idæ . ] A family of bivalve mollusks, typified by the genus Placuna , whose species are generally a ociated in the same family with the typical Anomiidæ , and are known as window-shells, window- oysters , and saddle -shells. pladarosis (plad-a-rō'sis), n . [NL., ροῦσθαι , become soft and flabby, πλαδαρός , wet, damp, flaccid, flabby, πλαδᾶν , be flaccid.] A soft tumor or wart on the eyelid. Also plada- rotis and pladaroma . plafond (pla-fond'), n . [= Sp . plafon ; plafond , ceiling, plat , flat (see plate ), + fond , bottom: see fund1 , found2.] In arch ., the ceil- ing of a room, whether flat or arched; also, the under side of the projection of the larmier of a cornice, and generally any soffit. Also platfond . plaga (plaga), n.; pl. pl. plagæ (-jē). [NL., plaga , a blow, stroke, wound, stripe: see plaque .] In zoöl ., In zoöl . , a stripe or streak of color. Plaga scapular is, in entom., same as parapsis1. 2. Practising literary theft. plagiary (plā'ji-a-ri), n . and a. [Formerly pla- giarie ; plagiaire = Sp. Pg. It. plagiario , a kidnapper, a plagiarist, plagiarius , a kid- napper, plagiarist, plagium , kidnap- ping, prob.. plaga , a net, snare, trap, prob. orig. * placa , plec - t - ere = Gr. πλέκειν, weave: see plait .] I. n.; pl. plagiaries (-riz). 11. A man stealer; a kidnapper. He was a Cyrenean by birth, and. in the time of his minor i tie or child-hood he was by some Plagiary stolne away from his friends, and sold to the Is mae lite Merchants. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 243. 2. A plagiarist. Haliday . plagal (plā'gal), a. [F. plagal = It. plagale, Why, the ditty 's all borrowed; 'tis Horace's; hang him, plagiary! B. Jonson, Poetaster, iv. 1. 3. The crime of literary theft; plagiarism. Plagiarie had not its nativitie with printing, but began in times when thefts were difficult, and the paucity of bookes scarce wanted that invention. Sir T. Browne , Vulg. Err., i. 6. II. a. 11. Man stealing; kidnapping. Plagiary and man-stealing Tartars. Brown , Travels (1685), p. 49. ( Latham .) Or a Hos ego from old Petrarch's spright Unto a plagiary sonnet-wright. Bp. Hall, Satires, IV. ii. 84. Plagiaulacidæ (plā"ji-a-las'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., uted family of fo il mammals, typified by the genus Plagiaulax. The premolars were obliquely grooved and the last was enlarged, the true molars two on each side and small, and the incisors of the lower jaw inclined forward and two in number. The family was for dorite; with these the triclinic potash feldspar microcline is sometimes included. See feldspar. plagioclastic (plā"ji-ō-klas'tik), a. [ IMG:content-0314.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0315.jpg:[graphic][merged small] inæ: so called from the diagonal grooves of the molars. The molars are rootle ; the thumb is rudimentary; the tail is short and scaly; the fur is coarse, with silky under-fur; the muzzle is blunt; and the whole form is stout. The genus is closely related to Capromys. There is only one species, P. ædium of San Domingo. 2. A genus of reptiles. Duméril.-3. A genus of mollusks. Isaac Lea.