ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] In the senses of the verb.
1603. Knolles, Hist. Turkes (1610), 555. Those … expences … were royally supported with the embeseled spoile.
1641. Vind. Smectymnuus, 24. An imbezel’d book.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1650), I. II. vii. 7. An outlandish man who had the keeping of them embeazled many.
1833. Ht. Martineau, Berkeley the Banker, I. viii. 153. The nature of the embezzled property.
1870. Lowell, Among My Books, Ser. II. (1873), 281. An old gentleman … used the contracted form of the participle in conversation, but … gave it back its embezzled syllable in reading.
