plagium (plajium)

[L., kidnapping: see plagiary. In civil and Scots law, the crime of stealing men, women, or children, formerly pun ishable with death. evil of any kind. Thus were they plagued , And worn with famine. Milton , P. L., x. 572. =Syn. 1. Torment , Worry , etc. (see tease ), gall, bore.-2. To afflict.