Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A robbing or embezzling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A robbing or embezzlement.
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- noun obsolete A
robbing orembezzlement .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Also robbery and depeculation of the public treasury or revenues is a greater crime than the robbing or defrauding of a private man, because to rob the public is to rob many at once; also the counterfeit usurpation of public ministry, the counterfeiting of public seals, or public coin, than counterfeiting of a private man's person or his seal, because the fraud thereof extendeth to the damage of many.
Leviathan 2007
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Also robbery and depeculation of the public treasury or revenues is a greater crime than the robbing or defrauding of a private man, because to rob the public is to rob many at once; also the counterfeit usurpation of public ministry, the counterfeiting of public seals, or public coin, than counterfeiting of a private man's person or his seal, because the fraud thereof extendeth to the damage of many.
Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651
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An embezzling of public funds. (Luciferous Logolepsy)
May 16, 2008