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Nathan Bailey's Dictionarium Britannicum - 2nd edition - London 1736

Pirate: one who lives by pillage and robbing on the sea. Also a plagiary.

https://books.google.ch/books?id=O50-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PT181&lpg=P...

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Daniel Defoe's The True-Born Englishman - First published in 1701, the quote below is from the explanatory preface added in a 1703 edition

Had I wrote it for the gain of the press, I should have been concerned at its being printed again, and again, by pirates, as they call them

http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm



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