peculations's Usage Examples:

Here he " woke up to the interest of moral and metaphysical speculations.

Philosophy had attempted to free itself from the trammels of theological orthodoxy in the hardy speculations of some schoolmen, notably of Scotus Erigena and Abelard.

'The errorists developed speculations and practical theories on the basis of the Old Testament law, which proved extremely seductive to many Christians.

Medieval writers contain nothing of interest on the subject, and the speculations of the earliest of the modern evolutionists, such as C.

The plea of the last named on behalf of Corsica served to enlist the sympathy of Napoleon in his wider speculations, and so helped to bring about that mental transformation which merged Buonaparte the Corsican in Bonaparte the Jacobin and Napoleon the First Consul and Emperor.

, and the Greeks and Romans knew these epidemics well, their philosophers having shrewd speculations as to causes, while the people held characteristic superstitions regarding them, which found vent in the dedication of special festivals and deities to the pests.

Cudworth and Clarke had tried to place ethics on a nobler footing, but their speculations were too abstract for Butler and not sufficiently "applicable to the several particular relations and circumstances1 of life.

The cosmogonic myths of the Aryans of India are peculiarly interesting, as we find in the Vedas and Brahmanas and Puranas almost every fiction familiar to savages side by side with the most abstract metaphysical speculations.

Until his wife was finally driven from Spain by the revolutionary movement of 1854, the duke is credibly reported to have applied himself to making a large fortune out of railway concessions and by judicious stock exchange speculations.

Synonyms:

theft, misappropriation, plunderage, thievery, thieving, defalcation, larceny, stealing, raid, embezzlement, misapplication,

Antonyms:

petit larceny, grand larceny, honest, defend,