Who decides the meaning? You? --- Nathan Bailey's Dictionarium Britannicum - 2nd edition - London 1736 Pirate: one who lives by pillage and robbing on the se

Who decides the meaning? You? --- 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=PT181 https://books.google.ch/books?id=O50-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PT181&lpg=P... --- 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 http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm