depeculation

English

Etymology

From Latin depeculari, past participle depeculatus (“to rob”). See peculate.

Noun

depeculation (countable and uncountable, plural depeculations)

1. (obsolete) A robbing or embezzlement.
   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan:

     depeculation of the public treasure

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “depeculation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)