PECULA'TION, noun The act, practice or crime of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods entrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement of public money or goods.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.