Word Meanings - PECULATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle. An oppressive, . . . rapacious, and peculating despotism. Burke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PECULATE)

• Embezzle
• Appropriate
• confuse
• falsify
• peculate
• misappropriate
• Pilfer
• Abstract
• filch
• purloin
• smuggle
• cabbage
• steal
• thieve
• Steal
• Filch
• pilfer
• swindle
• take by theft
• embezzle

Related words: (words related to PECULATE)

• SMUGGLER
  1. One who smuggles. 2. A vessel employed in smuggling.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• PILFERY
  Petty theft. Sir T. North.
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• THIEVE
  To practice theft; to steal. (more info) Etym:
• EMBEZZLE
  1. To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust. 2. To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• SWINDLER
  One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat. Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages.
• STEALINGLY
  By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. Sir P. Sidney.
• ABSTRACTEDLY
  In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
• STEALTH
  1. The act of stealing; theft. The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw. Spenser. 2. The thing stolen; stolen property. "Sluttish dens . . . serving to cover stealths." Sir W. Raleigh. 3. The bringing to
• PURLOINER
  One who purloins. Swift.
• ABSTRACTITIOUS
  Obtained from plants by distillation. Crabb.
• ABSTRACTNESS
  The quality of being abstract. "The abstractness of the ideas." Locke.
• CABBAGE
  chou cobus headed cabbage, cabbage head; cf. It. capuccio a little head, cappuccio cowl, hood, cabbage, fr. capo head, L. caput, or fr. 1. An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The
• PURLOIN
  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. (more info) pur, por, pour, for + loin
• STEALTHLIKE
  Stealthy; sly. Wordsworth.
• SWINDLERY
  Swindling; rougery. "Swindlery and blackguardism." Carlyle.
• ABSTRACTIONAL
  Pertaining to abstraction.
• CONFUSEDNESS
  A state of confusion. Norris.
• SUBPERIOSTEAL
  Situated under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation , a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum.
• UNAPPROPRIATE
  1. Inappropriate; unsuitable. 2. Not appropriated. Bp. Warburton.
• PERIOSTEAL
  Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.
• FIBROCHONDROSTEAL
  Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. St. George Mivart.