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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Defalcated

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Defalcating

[LL.

defalcatus

, p. p. of

defalcare

to deduct, orig., to cut off with a sickle; L.

de-

falx

falcis

, a sickle. See

To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; – used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.

To show what may be practicably and safely

defalcated

from them [the estimates].

Burke.

Verb.

To commit defalcation; to embezzle money held in trust.

“Some partner defalcating, or the like.”

Carlyle.

Verb.

To cut off; to take away or deduct a part; used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, &c.