peculate

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It is true that the excellent chef began to peculate, but as his cuisine did not suffer, the result was not noticeable for a long period.

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  1. transitive and intransitive verb To embezzle (funds) or engage in embezzlement.

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  • "And if you consider that continued hospitalization is needed, we'll peculate her into Boston" Thank you And as benefit of Nikki, dialect mayhap she wouldn't be unhealthy if you hadn't allowed her to call in Caroline in front we knew what the hapless frail had —  Social Media Firehose
  • I shall now show your Lordships in what manner she made use of her power over the supreme judicature_, to peculate, and to destroy the country; and I shall adduce, as proofs of this abuse of her authority, the facts I am about to relate, and of which there is evidence before your Lordships There was an ostensible man, named Sudder ul Huk Khân, placed there at the head of the administration of justice, with a salary of seven thousand pounds a year of the Company's money. —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
  • It is true that the excellent chef began to peculate, but as his cuisine did not suffer, the result was not noticeable for a long period. —  The Old Wives' Tale
  • No man ever paid a bribe for the handling of the public money, but to peculate from it. —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
  • I actually carry a notebook and when someone provides an insight or suggestion I write it down and let it "peculate" to see if, how, and where it makes since and how to apply it if it is considered valuable and beneficial to the path I am walking. —  So...What's Next?!?
 

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  1. Latin pecūlārī, pecūlāt-, from pecūlium, private property; see peku- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin peculatus, past participle ofpeculari, defraud the public, embezzle public property, from peculium, property: see peculium.
  2. = Frenchpéculat = Spanish peculado = Portuguese Italian peculato, from Latin peculatus, embezzlement, peculation, from peculari, embezzle, peculate: see peculate, v.
 

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/ˈpɛkjuleɪt/
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