Usage examples (5)

• "He had never bartered promotion in the army for bribes, nor peculated in the supplies of provisions for the army." l.v. c. xxxiv.
• “He had never bartered promotion in the army for bribes, nor peculated in the supplies of provisions for the army.” l.v. c.xxxiv. —
• Not that he had peculated on the public treasury; his good sense and pride forbade a resort to this manœuvre of weak minds; but by resorting to loans and the costly...
• 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...