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Beggar

Bĕg'gar, n.

noun

n. [O. Eng. more prop. begger, from beg.] 1. One who begs or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner; specifically, one who makes it his business to ask alms; a mendicant. A beggar begs that never begged before. Shak. 2. One who assumes in argument what he does not prove. Tillotson.

Bĕg'gar, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. BEGGARED; p. pr. & vb. n. BEGGARING.]

To reduce to beggary; to impoverish. “He had, by his ill stewardship, . . . beggared both himself and the public.” Milton.
To deprive, or make destitute; to exhaust. “It beggared all description.” Shak.