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Beggable
Beggable Beg"ga*ble, a.
Capable of being begged.
Beggar
Beggar Beg"gar, n. [OE. beggere, fr. beg.]
1. One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with
humility; a petitioner.
2. One who makes it his business to ask alms.
3. One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a
contemptuous or sarcastic use.
4. One who assumes in argument what he does not prove. --Abp.
Tillotson.
BeggarBeggar Beg"gar, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beggared; p. pr. & vb.
n. Beggaring.]
1. To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared
himself. --Milton.
2. To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
It beggared all description. --Shak. BeggaredBeggar Beg"gar, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beggared; p. pr. & vb.
n. Beggaring.]
1. To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared
himself. --Milton.
2. To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
It beggared all description. --Shak. Beggarhood
Beggarhood Beg"gar*hood, n.
The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars.
BeggaringBeggar Beg"gar, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beggared; p. pr. & vb.
n. Beggaring.]
1. To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared
himself. --Milton.
2. To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
It beggared all description. --Shak. Beggarism
Beggarism Beg"gar*ism, n.
Beggary. [R.]
Beggarliness
Beggarliness Beg"gar*li*ness, n.
The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.
Beggarly
Beggarly Beg"gar*ly, a.
1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a
beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor;
contemptible. ``A bankrupt, beggarly fellow.' --South.
``A beggarly fellowship.' --Swift. ``Beggarly elements.'
--Gal. iv. 9.
2. Produced or occasioned by beggary. [Obs.]
Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness
and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying,
flattery, stealing, and dissimulation. --Jer.
Taylor.
Beggarly
Beggarly Beg"gar*ly, adv.
In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of
a beggar.
Beggary
Beggary Beg"gar*y, a.
Beggarly. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
BeggaryBeggary Beg"gar*y, n. [OE. beggerie. See Beggar, n.]
1. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar;
mendicancy; extreme poverty.
2. Beggarly appearance. [R.]
The freedom and the beggary of the old studio.
--Thackeray.
Syn: Indigence; want; penury; mendicancy. Bullbeggar
Bullbeggar Bull"beg`gar, n.
Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children
or persons of weak mind; a bugbear.
And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from
the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the
forward children in the parish. --Mountfort
(1691).
Couple-beggar
Couple-beggar Cou"ple-beg`gar (-b?g`g?r), n.
One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other.
--Swift.
Meaning of Begga from wikipedia
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Saint Begga (also Begue, Beghe, Begge) (615 – 17
December 693) was the
daughter of
Pepin of Landen,
mayor of the
palace of Austrasia, and his wife Itta...
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overlap via the
marriage of Arnulf's son
Ansegisel and Pippin's
daughter Begga and
their son,
Pippin of
Herstal and his descendants.
Since the late eighth...
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namesake of
Pepin I the
Elder through the
marriage of
Pepin I's
daughter Begga to Ansegisel. He was also the
grandfather of
Pepin the
Short and great-grandfather...
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Frankish kings and rule over the
Carolingian Empire. He was
married to
Begga, the
daughter of
Pepin the Elder,
sometime after 639. They had the following...
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feast day was 21 February.
Married Itta of Metz and had four children:
Begga Grimoald Bavo [citation needed]
Gertrude Butler, Alban.
Lives of the Saints...
- kept
close ties to the
family by
marrying his son to Gertrude's sister,
Begga. However,
later scholars have disagreed. Gertrude's
biography begins with...
- GP WU, is a
rotating member of the project.
Washington D.C.
natives Tha
Beggas (misspelled on The
Swarm and Wu-Tang
Collective compilations as "The Beggaz"...
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daughter by Pepin,
Abbess Begga of Andenne, who had
married Ansegisel, son of
Arnulf of Metz
prior to
joining the monastery. By
Begga, she is the grandmother...
- a bear that
terrorized the inhabitants. The
Collegiate Church of
Saint Begga,
located in Andenne, was
founded in the 7th century.
Andenne is the location...
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Arnulf allied their families through the
marriage of Pippin's
daughter Begga and Arnulf's son Ansegisel. As
repayment for
their help
during the Austrasian...
