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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peculate \Pec"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Peculated; p. pr. & vb. n. Peculating.] [L. peculatus, p. p. of peculari to peculate, akin to peculium private property. See Peculiar.] 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1749, from Latin peculatus, past participle of peculari "to embezzle," from peculum "private property," originally "cattle" (see peculiar). Related: Peculated; peculating; peculator.\n\n
Wiktionary
vb. To embezzle
WordNet
v. appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family" [syn: embezzle, defalcate, misappropriate, malversate]
Wikipedia
Peculate is an American avant-garde metal and progressive metal band, formed in 2012. Peculate "combines metal, djent, jazz, contemporary classical, avant-garde, electronic, and experimental music together to create progressive music with punk sensibilities." Much of Peculate's music is composed using the 12-tone technique. Metal blog Invisible Oranges describes the hallmarks of the band's sound as the "utilization of twelve-tone technique, the Zappa jazz fusion tangents, and the Devin Townsend-esque attention to production details."
Peculate is a project of composer and musician Ben Norton. Norton releases all of Peculate's material for free on the band's Bandcamp website.
Usage examples of "peculate".
Browns peculates that William was making demands of his father, who was in the process of making his will, and that these demands were rejected by Andrew.
He'd picked up a rumor that the head cook was peculating, probably with the help of some of the victuallers that supplied the ship.
Father also suspects him of peculating Service funds, some kind of sleight-ofhand in shipbuilding contracts.
The Provisioning Committee is either peculating, or it is incompetent.
He did not have to class himself with the cheating captains he had heard about, with the peculating officers he had known.
Clearly he must have shifted the scene of his operations farther west, because a year later he plays an incredibly audacious, but not a very profitable part, in a serio-comic business in Manila Bay, in which a peculating governor and an absconding treasurer are the principal figures.