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Definition of Peculated
1. peculate [v] - See also: peculate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peculated
Literary usage of Peculated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Cases on Code Pleading by Austin Abbott (1895)
"In an action to recover from defendant moneys which he and others acting as public
officers had peculated from a city treasury by neglect to audit, ..."
2. The Definer's Manual: Being a Dictionary on a New Plan, of the Most Useful by William W. Smith (1860)
"PECULATE, (plk'-ki-lato) 1.1. To rob or defraud the public. ! p. peculated ; ppr.
... peculated. ! VOCATION, (vo-ka'-shun) «. Trade; calling; employment. ..."
3. The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1884)
"... and the second time somebody touted at us from some invisible place. Whereupon we
left again. We •peculated in grapes no more on that fide of Athens. ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1846)
"... profana, rapit. of Zosimus, deserved the notice of the tion in the army for
bribes, nor peculated * One particular in the extorted praise ing age. ..."
5. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1904)
"Not that he had peculated on the public treasury; his good sense and pride forbade
a resort to this manoeuvre of weak minds; but by resorting to loans and ..."
6. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"... while the new men in the valleys below peculated and bribed, swarmed and
sweated, in the mire of a profitless and purposeless corruption. ..."
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