Beg

Definition of Beg

n.

1.

A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

v. t.

1.

To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.

[imp. & p. p. Begged ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Begging.]

I do beg your good will in this case.

- Shak.

[Joseph] begged the body of Jesus.

- Matt. xxvii. 58.

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.

5.

(Old Law) To ask to be appointed guardiln for, or to aso to havo a guardian appointed for.

Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.

- Harrington.

To beg (one) for a fool
to take him for a fool.

I beg to
is an elliptical expression for I beg leave to; as, I beg to inform you.

To beg the question
to assume that which was to be proved in a discussion, instead of adducing the proof or sustaining the point by argument.

To go a-begging
a figurative phrase to express the absence of demand for something which elsewhere brings a price; as, grapes are so plentiful there that they go a-begging.

v. i.

1.

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.

Related Words

appeal, appeal to, bear, beget, besiege, brace, breed, bum, cadge, call for help, call on, call upon, circumvent, clamor for, conjure, cry for, cry on, cry to, demand, ditch, double, elude, escape, evade, generate, get, get around, get away from, get out of, hit, hit up, impetrate, imprecate, invoke, kneel to, mooch, multiply, nag, obtest, panhandle, pass the hat, plead, plead for, press, procreate, produce, progenerate, propagate, reproduce, run to, scrounge, shake, shake off, shuffle out of, sire, skirt, sue, touch, worry

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