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▪ I. begged, ppl. a.|bɛgd|
[f. beg v. + -ed1.]
1. Obtained or sustained by begging.
1570–87Holinshed Scot. Chron. (1806) II. 121 To lead a bare and begged life. 1641Smectymnuus Vind. Answ. 30 What the Bishop of Salisbury saith in his begged suffrage.
2. begged fool. see beg v. 5.
1693W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. 621 Beg'd fools, insigniter stulti, qui gemmas vitro, aurum plumbo permutarent.
▪ II. † ˈbegged, -eth Obs.
[Only in phrase a-begged, -eth; f. beg v. Prof. Skeat takes the original form as beggeth, formed in imitation of ‘a hunteth’ (used by Robt. Glouc. in ‘to wende an honteth’), from OE. huntað n. ‘hunting,’ the ending -eth being extended in ME. to other verbs, and confused in form with the pa. pple. See other instances in Skeat's ed. of Chaucer's Man of Law's T. 146.]
In phrase to go a-begged: to go a begging.
c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 852 To goon a begged in my kirtle bare. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. ix. 137 Folk that gon a-begged [v.r. abegged, a-beggyd, abeggeþ, beggen]. |