| 释义 |
embezzled, ppl. a.|ɛmˈbɛz(ə)ld|
[f. prec. + -ed.]
In the senses of the verb.
1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 555 Those..expences..were..supported with the embeseled spoile. 1641Vind. Smectymnuus 24 An imbezel'd book. c1645Howell Lett. ii. 8 An Italian who had the keeping of their embeazled mony. 1833H. Martineau Berkeley Banker i. viii. 153 The nature of the embezzled property. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. (1873) 281 An old gentleman..used the contracted form of the participle in conversation, but.. gave it back its embezzled syllable in reading. |