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Definition of Filched
1. filch [v] - See also: filch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Filched
Literary usage of Filched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1890)
"... is still preserved in the vestry, though in a very tattered condition, the
greater portion of its contents having been filched by unscrupulous admirers. ..."
2. The Second Part of Goethe's Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1886)
"Eros he overthrew in wrestling : And from the Queen of Cyprus, as she kissed him,
He filched away the girdle from her breast. An enchanting purely melodious ..."
3. Rochester and the Mayo Clinic: A Fair and Unbiased Story Calculated to Aid by George Wiley Broome, William James Mayo, Charles Horace Mayo (1914)
"... with the corporations and organized money-making schemers who milk the community
by means of the powers which they have filched from the body politic. ..."
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