Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A simplified spelling of
thieve .
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A Minifter that commits this crime, and makes ufe of the public money for that purpofe, adds thiev - ing and breach of truft to the crime of corruption; and as the crime when committed by him, is of much more dangerous confequence than when committed by a private man, it becomes more properlv the ob. jeft of a Parliamentary Enquiry, and ought to be more fevercly pu - nilhed.
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