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peculate

[ pek-yuh-leyt ]

verb (used with or without object)

peculated, peculating.
  1. to steal or take dishonestly (money, especially public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle.


peculate

/ ˈɛʊˌɪ /

verb

  1. to appropriate or embezzle (public money)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ𳦳ˌٴǰ, noun
  • ˌ𳦳ˈپDz, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • u·tDz noun
  • u·tǰ noun
  • ܲ·u·iԲ adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of peculate1

First recorded in 1740–50; verb use of peculate “embezzlement” (now obsolete), from Latin past participle and noun ūٳܲ “embezzled; embezzlement,” equivalent to ū(ī) ) “to embezzle,” literally, “to make public property private” + -tus suffix of verbal action, derivative of pecu “wealth, livestock, movable property”; peculiar, -ate 1
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of peculate1

C18: from Latin ūī, from ūܳ private property (originally, cattle); see peculiar
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It would appear that many charges of the biographers were made upon the authority of a peculating servant whom Bront� had angered by dismissal.

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He was once the Shah’s Prime Minister: he peculated, and was disgraced.

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He is coarse, uneducated, and vulgar; he never picked up any semblance of the class from whom he peculated; and has lived on, as he began, a "low comedy villain," and no more.

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He knows how pedants hoodwink people, how priests act the hypocrite, how physicians act the rake, how lawyers peculate.

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Or shall I tell him the story of Davoust at Hamburg, when the Syndicate accused him of peculating, and mentioned some millions that he had abstracted from the treasury.

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