Definition of "peculated" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of peculate. (verb)

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• "Recovery of peculated property is now extended to the ultimate recipients as well as the original thieves — anyone convicted in the court cannot address any public meeting anywhere — men of the Latin Rights who successfully prosecute a malefactor will be rewarded with the full Roman citizenship — and there is now a recess inserted into the middle of the trial proceedings."
• "From now on — if the law is passed, which I suppose it will be — the State will be able to recover damages or misappropriated property or peculated funds from their ultimate recipients as well as from the original culprits."
• "Helpless beyond measure in all the duties of practical statesmanship, its members or their dependants have given proof of remarkable energy in the single department of peculation; and there, not content with the slow methods of the old-fashioned defaulter, who helped himself only to what there was, they have contrived to steal what there was going to be, and have peculated in advance by a kind of official post-obit."