#496 filch

filch- verb- to steal or take surreptitiously in small amounts; pilfer

C16 filchen to steal, attack, perhaps from Old English gefylce band of men

filcher- noun

The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind ... to filch wealth and power to themselves.

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