Beg

[beg] or [bɛɡ]

Definition

(verb.) call upon in supplication; entreat; 'I beg you to stop!'.

(verb.) dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted; 'beg the question'; 'beg the point in the discussion'.

(verb.) ask to obtain free; 'beg money and food'.

Editor: Lucia--From WordNet

Definition

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

(v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.

(v. t.) To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.

(v. t.) To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.

(v. t.) To take for granted; to assume without proof.

(v. t.) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.

(v. i.) To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.

Edited by Angelina

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Crave, solicit, beseech, implore, supplicate, conjure, pray for, petition for, seek by petition, ask earnestly.[2]. Assume, take for granted, consider as true.

v. n. Solicit charity, ask alms.

Editor: Michel

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Ask, request, entreat, supplicate, beseech, implore, pray, petition, crave

ANT:Insist, exact, extort, require, demand

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Definition

v.i. to ask alms or charity esp. habitually (with of from; for of the thing asked).—v.t. to ask earnestly: to beseech: to pray: to take for granted what ought to have been proved esp. in the phrase in logic 'to beg the question'—the fallacy of the Petitio Principii:—pr.p. beg′ging; pa.p. begged.—n. Beg′gar one who begs: one who lives by begging: a mean fellow a poor fellow—often used with a playful and even affectionate sense.—v.t. to reduce to beggary: to exhaust or impoverish: (fig.) to go beyond the resources of as of description.—ns. Beg′gardom the fraternity of beggars; Beg′garliness.—adj. Beggarly poor: mean: worthless.—adv. meanly.—ns. Beg′gar-my-neigh′bour a game at cards which goes on till one of the players has gained all the other's cards; Beg′gary extreme poverty.—adv. Beg′gingly.—To beg off to obtain another's release through entreaty to seek that one's self may be relieved of some penalty or liability.—To go a-begging to be in want of a purchaser or of a person to fill it (of a situation &c.).

Same as Bey.

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