Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EM-BEZ'ZLE-MENT
EM-BEZ'ZLE-MENT, n.
- The act of fraudulently appropriating to one's own use, the money or goods intrusted to one's care and management. An accurate account of the embezzlements of public money would form a curious history.
- The thing appropriated.
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