PECULATE
PEC'ULATE, verb intransitive [Latin peculatus, peculor, from peculium, private property, from pecus, cattle.]1. To defraud the public of money or goods entrusted to one's care, ...
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PECULATION
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...
PECULATOR
PEC'ULATOR, noun [Latin] One that defrauds the public by appropriating to his own use money entrusted to his care.
PECULIAR
PECU'LIAR, adjective [Latin peculiaris, from peculium, one's own property, from pecus, cattle.]1. Appropriate; belonging to a person and to him only. Almost every writer has a p...
PECULIARITY
PECULIAR'ITY, noun Something peculiar to a person or thing; that which belongs to or is found in one person or thing and in no other; as a peculiarity of style or manner of thin...
PECULIARIZE
PECU'LIARIZE, verb transitive To appropriate; to make peculiar.
PECULIARLY
PECU'LIARLY, adverb Particularly; singly.1. In a manner not common to others.
PECULIARNESS
PECU'LIARNESS, noun The state of being peculiar; appropriation. [Little used.]
PECUNIARY
PECU'NIARY, adjective [Latin pecuniarius, from pecunia, money, from pecus, cattle.]1. Relating to money; as pecuniary affairs or losses.2. Consisting of money; as a pecuniary mu...
PECUNIOUS
PECU'NIOUS, adjective Full of money. [Not used.]
PED
PED, noun [for pad.] A small pack-saddle.1. A basket; a hamper.
PEDAGOGIC
PEDAGOG'ICPEDAGOG'ICAL, adjective [from pedagogue.]Suiting or belonging to a teacher of children or to a pedagogue.
PEDAGOGICAL
PEDAGOG'ICAL, a. [from pedagogue.]Suiting or belonging to a teacher of children or to a pedagogue.
PEDAGOGISM
PED'AGOGISM, noun The business, character or manners of a pedagogue.
PEDAGOGUE
PEDAGOGUE, noun ped'agog.[Gr. a child, and to lead.]1. A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to instruct young children; a schoolmaster.2. A pedant.PED'AGOGUE, verb tra...
PEDAGOGY
PED'AGOGY, noun Instruction in the first rudiments; preparatory discipline.
PEDAL
PE'DAL, adjective [Latin pedalis, from pes, pedis, foot.]Pertaining to a foot.PED'AL, noun One of the large pipes of an organ, so called because played and stopped with the foot...
PEDAL-NOTE
PED'AL-NOTE, noun In music, a holding note.
PEDANEOUS
PEDA'NEOUS, adjective [Latin pedaneus, from pes, the foot.]Going on foot; walking.
PEDANT
PED'ANT, noun1. A schoolmaster.2. A person who makes a vain display of his learning.
PEDANTIC
PEDANT'ICPEDANT'ICAL, adjective Ostentatious of learning; vainly displaying or making a show of knowledge; applied to persons or things; as a pedantic writer or scholar; a pedan...
PEDANTICAL
PEDANT'ICAL, a. Ostentatious of learning; vainly displaying or making a show of knowledge; applied to persons or things; as a pedantic writer or scholar; a pedantic description ...
PEDANTICALLY
PEDANT'ICALLY, adverb With a vain or boastful display of learning.
PEDANTIZE
PED'ANTIZE, verb intransitive To play the pedant; to domineer over lads; to use pedantic expressions.
PEDANTRY
PED'ANTRY, noun Vain ostentation of learning; a boastful display of knowledge of any kind.Horace has enticed me into this pedantry of quotation.Pedantry is the unseasonable oste...
PEDARIAN
PEDA'RIAN, noun A Roman senator who gave his vote by the feet, that is, by walking over to the side he espoused, in divisions of the senate.
PEDATE
PED'ATE, adjective [Latin pedatus, from pes, the foot.] In botany, divided like the toes. A pedate leaf is one in which a bifid petiole connects several leaflets on the inside o...