purloining
41ARNIM, COUNT — ambassador of Germany, first at Rome and then at Paris; accused in the latter capacity of purloining State documents, and sentenced to imprisonment; died in exile at Nice (1824 1881) …
42purloin — mid 15c., to put far away, from Anglo Fr. purloigner remove, from O.Fr. porloigner put off, retard, delay, from por (from L. pro forth ) + O.Fr. loing far, from L. longe, from longus (see LONG (Cf. long)). Sense of …
43purloin — [[t]pɜː(r)lɔ͟ɪn[/t]] purloins, purloining, purloined VERB If someone purloins something, they steal it or borrow it without asking permission. [FORMAL] [V n] Each side purloins the other s private letters …
44abstraction — n. 1. Separation, disconnection, disjunction, isolation, partial view, consideration without completeness, severing from context, ignoring of relations, blindness to the proper whole. 2. Preoccupation, inattention, revery, musing, muse, absence,… …
45theft — n. 1. Larceny, robbery, stealing, pilfering, purloining, thievery. 2. Peculation, embezzlement, fraud, swindling, thievery, thieving …
46embezzlement — noun four corporate managers were indicted for embezzlement Syn: misappropriation, theft, stealing, robbery, thieving, pilfering, purloining, pilferage, appropriation, swindling; fraud, larceny …
47steal — steal, *pilfer, filch, purloin, lift, pinch, snitch, swipe, cop are comparable when they mean to take another s possession without right and without his knowledge or permission. Steal, the commonest and most general of the group, can refer to any …
48theft — theft, larceny, robbery, burglary mean the act or crime of stealing, though they have differences in legal application. The same differences in implications and applications are observable in the agent nouns thief, larcener or larcenist, robber,… …
49purloin — UK [pɜː(r)ˈlɔɪn] / US [pərˈlɔɪn] verb [transitive] Word forms purloin : present tense I/you/we/they purloin he/she/it purloins present participle purloining past tense purloined past participle purloined often humorous to steal something secretly …
50Raspe, Rudolf Eric — (1737 1794) B. in Hanover, was a prof. in Cassel, and keeper of the Landgrave of Hesse s antique gems and medals, in the purloining of some of which he was detected, and fled to England. Here he won for himself a certain place in English… …
