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peculation embezzlement. — peculator, n. See also: Theftembezzlement. See also: Crime
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Another ill effect of the exclusion would be the temptation to sordid views, to peculation, and, in some instances, to usurpation. Scipio, charged with peculation, refuses to do himself so great a disgrace as to wait for justification, though he had the scroll of his accounts in his hands, but tears it to pieces before the tribunes. , when he was impeached for peculation, as were a great number of other honest gentlemen of those days; and Walpole Crawley was, as need scarcely be said, son of John Churchill Crawley, named after the celebrated military commander of the reign of Queen Anne. |
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