a. [f. LARCEN-Y + -OUS. Cf. OF. larcineux, larrecinos.] Pertaining to or characterized by larceny; thievish.

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1742.  Fielding, J. Andrews, IV. v. ‘Ay’ says the Justice, ‘a kind of felonious larcenous Thing.’

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1807.  Syd. Smith, P. Plymley’s Lett., iv. Wks. 1840, III. 403. The acquittal of any noble and official thief would not fail to diffuse the most heartfelt satisfaction over the larcenous and burglarious world.

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1861.  Dickens, Gt. Expect., ii. I knew … that my larcenous researches might find nothing available in the safe.

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1880.  Swinburne, Stud. Shaks., 63. In all the larcenous little bundle of verse.

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1888.  Gladstone, in 19th Cent., XXIII. 783. A huge larcenous appropriation … of goods which do not belong to them.

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  Hence Larcenously adv., thievishly.

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1864.  in Webster.

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1882.  Daily News, 3 Jan., 5/4. Molière was accused … of larcenously conveying the ideas of Les Précieuses Ridicules from a piece acted two years before.

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