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Definition of Beg
Beg Beg Beg, v. i.
To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the
wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. --Luke xvi. 3.
Beg Beg Beg, n. [Turk. beg, pronounced bay. Cf. Bey, Begum.]
A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the
East; a bey.
Beg Beg Beg, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Begged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Begging.] [OE. beggen, perh. fr. AS. bedecian (akin to
Goth. bedagwa beggar), biddan to ask. (Cf. Bid, v. t.); or
cf. beghard, beguin.]
1. To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to
beseech.
I do beg your good will in this case. --Shak.
[Joseph] begged the body of Jesus. --Matt. xxvii.
58.
Note: Sometimes implying deferential and respectful, rather
than earnest, asking; as, I beg your pardon; I beg
leave to disagree with you.
2. To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or
from house to house.
Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his
seed begging bread. --Ps. xxxvii.
25.
3. To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to
grant a favor.
4. To take for granted; to assume without proof.
