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.
BEGGARY
Beg"gar*y, a.
Defn: Beggarly. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
BEGGESTERE
Beg"ge*stere, n. Etym: [Beg + -ster.]
Defn: A beggar. [Obs.] Chaucer.
BEGHARD; BEGUARD
Be*ghard" Be*guard", n. Etym: [F. bégard, béguard; cf. G. beghard,
LL. Beghardus, Begihardus, Begardus. Prob. from the root of beguine +
-ard or -hard. See Beguine.] (Eccl. Hist.)
Defn: One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins.
BEGILD
Be*gild", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Begilded or Begilt.]