(v. t.) To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.
(v. i.) To commit defalcation; to embezzle money held in trust.
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Peculate
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(v. i.) To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.
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(1) Analysis of structure in various methods and of references supported authors' interpretation that lesion represented a late consequence of pecul a obliterative mainly venous process with prevailing plasmacytic feature.