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Piracies
(gcide) | Piracy \Pi"ra*cy\, n.; pl. Piracies. [Cf. LL. piratia, Gr. ?.
See Pirate.]
1. The act or crime of a pirate.
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2. (Common Law) Robbery on the high seas; the taking of
property from others on the open sea by open violence;
without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a
crime answering to robbery on land.
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Note: By statute law several other offenses committed on the
seas (as trading with known pirates, or engaging in the
slave trade) have been made piracy.
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3. "Sometimes used, in a quasi-figurative sense, of violation
of copyright; but for this, infringement is the correct
and preferable term." --Abbott.
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conspiracies
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Conspiracies
(gcide) | Conspiracy \Con*spir"a*cy\, n.; pl. Conspiracies. [See
Conspiration.]
1. A combination of people for an evil purpose; an agreement,
between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert,
as treason; a plot.
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When shapen was all his conspiracy
From point to point. --Chaucer.
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They made a conspiracy against [Amaziah]. --2 Kings
xiv. 19.
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I had forgot that foul conspiracy
Of the beast Caliban and his confederates. --Shak.
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2. A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to
one event, as if by agreement.
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A conspiracy in all heavenly and earthly things.
--Sir P.
Sidney.
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3. (Law) An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds,
by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful
act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful;
confederacy.
Syn: Combination; plot; cabal.
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