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purloined


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Purloin  \Pur*loin"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Purloined};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Purloining}.]  [OF.  purloignier  porloignier  to 
  retard,  delay;  pur,  por,  pour,  for  (L.  pro)  +  loin  far  far 
  off  (L.  longe).  See  {Prolong},  and  cf  {Eloign}.] 
  To  take  or  carry  away  for  one's  self  hence  to  steal;  to 
  take  by  theft;  to  filch. 
 
  Had  from  his  wakeful  custody  purloined  The  guarded 
  gold.  --Milton. 
 
  when  did  the  muse  from  Fletcher  scenes  purloin  ? 
  --Dryden. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  purloined 
  adj  :  taken  dishonestly;  "the  purloined  letter"  [syn:  {stolen}] 




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