Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A robbing or embezzling.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A robbing or embezzlement.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A robbing or embezzlement.
Etymologies
- Latin depeculari, past participle depeculatus, to rob. See peculate. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Also robbery and depeculation of the public treasury or revenues is a greater crime than the robbing or defrauding of a private man, because to rob the public is to rob many at once; also the counterfeit usurpation of public ministry, the counterfeiting of public seals, or public coin, than counterfeiting of a private man's person or his seal, because the fraud thereof extendeth to the damage of many.”
Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill
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Logolepsy
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whichbe An embezzling of public funds. (Luciferous Logolepsy) May 16, 2008