Beggar
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Beggar - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
BEG'GAR, n. [See Beg.] One that lives by asking alms, or makes it his business to beg for charity.
1. One who supplicates with humility; a petitioner; but in this sense rarely used, as the word has become a term of contempt.
2. One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.
BEG'GAR, v.t. To reduce to beggary; to impoverish.
1. To deprive or make destitute; to exhaust; as, to beggar description.
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- PleaseEaston’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
- Beg; Beggar; BeggingInternational Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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