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▪ I. beggarly, a.|ˈbɛgəlɪ|
Also 6 bedgarly, 6–7 beggerly.
[f. beggar + -ly1.]
1. In the condition of a beggar, indigent; befitting a beggar, mean, poverty-stricken.
1545Joye Exp. Dan. vii. (R.) Poore beggerly fryers. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. i. 140 The rest were ragged, old, and beggerly. 1704Pope Lett. (1736) V. 2 No beggar is so poor but he can keep a cur, and no author is so beggarly but he can keep a critic. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 330 As children multiplied..the household..became more and more beggarly.
2. fig. Intellectually poor, destitute of meaning or intrinsic value.
1526Tindale Gal. iv. 9 Weake and bedgarly [1611 beggerly] cerimones. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. III. xv. 491 Weak and beggarly Arguments. 1883Edin. Daily Rev. 6 June 2/7 That most crude and beggarly conception of reform.
3. Displaying the spirit of a beggar; mean, sordid.
1577J. Northbrooke Dicing (1843) 140 The beggerly and greedy desire. 1580Sidney Arcadia iii. 319 Thou art the beggerliest dastardly villain. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. v. 29 He renders me the beggerly thankes. 1640Bp. Hall Episc. ii. xix. 197 A very poor and beggarly evasion. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit. viii. 170 Lapsing into a beggarly habit.
4. Comb., as beggarly-looking.
1818Scott Rob Roy xxxi, A forked, uncased, bald-pated, beggarly-looking scare-crow.
▪ II. ˈbeggarly, adv.
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
After the manner of a beggar or of one who begs; a. indigently, meanly; b. suppliantly, entreatingly.
c1400Rom. Rose 223 And both bihynde & eke biforne Clouted was she beggarly. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utopia (1869) 67 The resydewe lyve myserablye, wretchedlye, and beggerlye. 1633Donne Poems (1650) 122 But he is worst, who (beggerly) doth chaw Others wits fruits. 1850Mrs. Browning Poems I. 58 Eve, who beggarly entreats your love. |