[The Chief Magistrate] might pervert his administration into a scheme of peculation or oppression.
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Peculation
//pɛkjʊˈleɪʃən//
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Sir Pitt Crawley (named after the great Commoner) was the son of Walpole Crawley, first Baronet, of the Tape and Sealing-Wax Office in the reign of George II., when he was impeached for peculation, as were a great number of other honest gentlemen of those days ...
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Bulfinch, a solicitor at Redcastle, came to him with irrefragable proofs of gross peculation on the part of the bailiff.
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She considered herself engaged to be married to a Scotch propaganda officer who had been dismissed for peculation and gone home to sell cars.
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