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单词 defalcate
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defalcateadj.

Etymology: < medieval Latin dēfalcātus, past participle of dēfalcāre : see defalcate v.
Obsolete.
Curtailed, diminished.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > curtailed
abridgeda1382
docked1408
defalcate1531
decurted?1550
curtailed1561
limited1590
minced1609
clipped1788
razeed1821
shorn1853
restricted1856
curtate1875
fine-cut1894
1531 in D. H. Fleming Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1921) II. 107/1 Tua martis and tua mottonis.., siclike as is defalcate to utheris tenentis.
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. x. sig. Rviiv All thoughe philosophers in the description of vertues haue deuised to set them as it were in degrees..yet be nat these in any parte defalcate of their condigne praises.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

defalcatev.

/dɪˈfalkeɪt/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s -at.
Etymology: < dēfalcāt-, participial stem of medieval Latin dēfalcāre (see Du Cange), < de- prefix 1a, 1b + Latin falx, falc-em sickle, reaping-hook, scythe. Compare French défalquer (14th cent. in Littré), Spanish defalcar, Italian diffalcare.
1. transitive. To cut or lop off (a portion from a whole); to retrench, deduct, subtract, abate.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > deduction > deduct [verb (transitive)]
abatec1400
rebate1425
batec1440
minishc1483
diminish?1504
detract1509
detray1509
deduct1524
defalkc1540
defalcate1541
subtray1549
derogate1561
discount1561
deduce?1566
substract1592
to strike off1597
reduct1600
subtract1610
subduct1716
to knock off1811
dock1891
shave1961
minus1963
1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance vii. f. 15v He shall defalcate that thyng that semeth superfluous.
1556 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 236 To tak consultatioun quhat suld be defalcat thairof les or mair.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 502/1 Rather..then to defalcate any iot of their couetous demaunds.
1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 496 To defalcate a substantiall part.
1653 T. Manton Pract. Comm. James ii. 10 Man is not..to defalcate and cut off such a considerable part of duty at his own pleasure.
1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials II. xxiv. 450 Those that had accounts to make to the king..used to defalcate a part and put it into their own pockets.
1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances I. 439 Defalcating from the Money due to the English, the Sum which his Subjects demanded for their Indemnification.
1818 J. Bentham Plan Parl. Reform cccxvi.
1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 195 The least desire to see defalcated any the least particle of abuse from a system composed wholly of abuse.
2.
a. To take or deduct a part from; to curtail, reduce. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] > curtail
wanea889
dockc1380
bridgec1384
abridgea1393
limita1398
syncopec1412
defalk1475
shortena1535
to cut short?1542
royn1573
retrench1587
curtail1589
retranch1589
lop1594
scantle1596
scant1599
scantelize1611
curtalize1622
defalce1651
detrench1655
barb1657
defalcatea1690
razee1815
detruncate1846
to cut down1857
shave1898
a1690 E. Hopkins 6th Commandm. in Expos. Ten Commandm. (1691) 92 To..defalcate, and as it were to decimate the laws of the great God.
1712 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 90 Such an one shall..be defalcated all those Particulars in his Account, where the Fraud appears.
1793 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 64. 506 If it [the mind] were defalcated and reduced.
1818 J. Bentham Church-of-Englandism 386 Let all pay..be defalcated, and applied to the real exigencies of the State.
b. To diminish or lessen in luminosity, heat, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > make dim [verb (transitive)]
fordima1050
dima1300
indim?1520
pall1539
bedim1582
efisc1656
appale1686
defalcate1808
bedull1836
scumble1905
1808 Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 98 156 Both phases appear to me sufficiently defalcated, to prove that the comet did not shine by light reflected from the sun only.
3. intransitive. To commit defalcations; to misappropriate property in one's charge.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > embezzlement or misappropriation > embezzle or misappropriate [verb (intransitive)]
malverse1640
peculate1730
default1797
defalcate1864
1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1888 Daily News 23 July 5/1 Head clerks have defalcated.
1891 Law Times 92 19/1 The secretary of the society having defalcated, and being threatened..with criminal proceedings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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