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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Peculate \Pec"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Peculated}; p. pr &
vb n. {Peculating}.] [L. peculatus p. p. of peculari to
peculate, akin to peculium private property. See {Peculiar}.]
To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public;
to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care to embezzle.
An oppressive, . . . rapacious, and peculating
despotism. --Burke.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
peculate
v : appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care)
fraudulently to one's own use [syn: {embezzle}, {misappropriate}]
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