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  Beg \Beg\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Begged; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Begging.] [OE. beggen, perh. fr. AS. bedecian (akin to
     Goth. bedagwa beggar), biddan to ask. (Cf. Bid, v. t.); or
     cf. beghard, beguin.]
     1. To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to
        beseech.
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              I do beg your good will in this case. --Shak.
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              [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus.    --Matt. xxvii.
                                                    58.
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     Note: Sometimes implying deferential and respectful, rather
           than earnest, asking; as, I beg your pardon; I beg
           leave to disagree with you.
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     2. To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or
        from house to house.
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              Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his
              seed begging bread.                   --Ps. xxxvii.
                                                    25.
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     3. To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to
        grant a favor.
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     4. To take for granted; to assume without proof.
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     5. (Old Law) To ask to be appointed guardiln for, or to aso
        to havo a guardian appointed for.
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              Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.
                                                    --Harrington.
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     To beg (one) for a fool, to take him for a fool.
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     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.
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     Syn: To Beg, Ask, Request.
  
     Usage: To ask (not in the sense of inquiring) is the generic
            term which embraces all these words. To request is
            only a polite mode of asking. To beg, in its original
            sense, was to ask with earnestness, and implied
            submission, or at least deference. At present,
            however, in polite life, beg has dropped its original
            meaning, and has taken the place of both ask and
            request, on the ground of its expressing more of
            deference and respect. Thus, we beg a person's
            acceptance of a present; we beg him to favor us with
            his company; a tradesman begs to announce the arrival
            of new goods, etc. Crabb remarks that, according to
            present usage, ``we can never talk of asking a
            person's acceptance of a thing, or of asking him to do
            us a favor.'' This can be more truly said of usage in
            England than in America.
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  Beg \Beg\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Begged; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Begging.] [OE. beggen, perh. fr. AS. bedecian (akin to
     Goth. bedagwa beggar), biddan to ask. (Cf. Bid, v. t.); or
     cf. beghard, beguin.]
     1. To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to
        beseech.
  
              I do beg your good will in this case. --Shak.
  
              [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus.    --Matt. xxvii.
                                                    58.
  
     Note: Sometimes implying deferential and respectful, rather
           than earnest, asking; as, I beg your pardon; I beg
           leave to disagree with you.
  
     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.

  beg
       v 1: call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!"
            [syn: implore, pray]
       2: make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request
          urgently or persistently; "Henry IV solicited the Pope for
          a divorce"; "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for
          different charities" [syn: solicit, tap]
       3: ask to obtain free; "beg money and food"
       [also: begging, begged]

  begging
       n : a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street
           by an apparently penniless person) [syn: beggary, mendicancy]

  begging
       See beg

  begging
     n.
     The act of one who begs.
     vb.
     (inflection of en beg  pres part)

  begging
     n.
     The act of one who begs.
     vb.
     (inflection of en beg  pres part)

  begging
     n.
     The act of one who begs.
     vb.
     (inflection of en beg  pres part)

  begging
     n.
     The act of one who begs.
     vb.
     (inflection of en beg  pres part)

  begging
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm b eg ging)

  begging
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en beg ordform=prespart)
     Engelska n.
     (avledning en beg verb); tiggeri, tiggande

  begging /bˈɛɡɪŋ/
  bedelary, bedelry

  Begging /bˈɛɡɪŋ/
  التّسوّل

  begging /bˈɛɡɪŋ/ 
  žebrota

  begging /bˈɛɡɪŋ/
  Betteln , Bettelei 

  begging /bˈɛɡɪŋ/
  bittend, bettelnd, erbettelnd
   see: beg, begged, beg leave
  

  begging /bˈɛɡɪŋ/
  erbittend, bekniend
   see: beg, begged
  

  begging /bˈɛɡɪŋ/
  
  ικετευτικός

  begging //ˈbɛɡɪŋ// 
  kerjuu
  the act of one who begs

  begging /bˈɛɡɪŋ/
  1. kolduló
  2. koldulás

  begging /begiŋ/
  mendicidad

  begging //ˈbɛɡɪŋ// 
  tiggeri
  the act of one who begs

  
/ˈbɛɡɪŋ/

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "begging":
     adjuratory, appealing, beggary, beseeching, bumming, cadging,
     entreating, imploring, mendicancy, mendicant, mendicity, mooching,
     panhandling, petitionary, pleading, prayerful, precative,
     precatory, scrounging, suppliant, supplicant, supplicating,
     supplicatory