PIRATE

A person who lives by piracy; A term of recent introduction to medical one guilty of the crime of piracy. A sea-rob science, signifying curability by means of ber, who, to enrich himself, by subtlety or persuasion, and used as synonymous with open force, setteth upon merchants and oth- "hysteria," in effect limiting the scope or the ers trading by sea, despoiling them of their, latter term to the description of psychic or loading, and sometimes bereaving them ot nervous disorders which may be cured life and sinking their ship·s. Ridley, Civil & uniquely by psychotherapy or persuasion. Ecc. Law, pt. 2, c. 1, I S. Babinski. · A pirate is one who acts solely on his own authority, without any commi ion or author i• [s. 906]