Definition of "purloined" [purloined]

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

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• "I have always thought 'vivacuous' is a good word, and hope one day to write a book about this phenomenon, using a title purloined from some Fitzroy graffiti, 'Gentrifuct'."
• "By prominent members of the international climate science community whose "Climategate" e-mails purloined from the prestigious East Anglia University Climate Research Unit that exposed clear evidence of data manipulation, concealment of public records and exclusion of disagreeable research findings from influential publications."
• "I do wonder how Bob Dole protégée Sheila Bair evaluated "WaMu's extensive collection of art and artifacts" when she assigned a price of $1. 9B to the $307B she purloined from the bank and from the NW for Wall St Nation's own Jamie Dimon."