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begn.1

Forms: Also 1600s becg.
Etymology: < Osmanli beg ‘prince, governor,’ now pronounced as bey : see bey n., and compare begum n.
Obsolete.
A bey. Now only used as part of Eastern names. beg beg = beglerbeg n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > for foreign persons of rank
bashawa1535
altesse1559
monseigneur1561
sheikh1577
naik1588
bey1589
altezza1595
kamia1601
illustrissimo1623
donshipc1626
pasha1648
Rao1665
hospodar1684
beg1686
burra sahiba1827
inkosi1835
gospodar1847
Mgr1848
Rai Bahadur1871
Rai Sahib1905
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > governors by country > [noun] > Ottoman or Turkish
sanjakbey1524
bashawa1535
sanjak1546
beglerbeg1586
bey1589
kehaya1594
kaimakam1645
pasha1648
hospodar1684
beg1686
vali1753
wali1811
gospodar1847
mutasarrif1873
1686 London Gaz. No. 2198/3 The Grand Visier had sent a Becg..to desire a treaty.
1687 London Gaz. No. 2285/2 The Beg Beg that commanded there..yielded at Discretion.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. iii. i. 492 Togrul Beg..offered himself as a leader and a bond of union to the Turks.

Derivatives

beglic n. (also beglik, begluc) province of a bey, beylic n.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > territory under a governor or official > [noun] > under a bey
beglic1614
beylic1744
beydom1860
beylicat1884
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 377 Beg is Lord..and Begluc is the Dignitie of the [Beg].
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begn.2

Etymology: < beg v.
a. An act of begging.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > begging > act or instance of
beg1814
panhandle1894
stem1914
the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > earnest request or entreaty > beseeching or importuning
beseechinga1350
suit1372
beggingc1380
pursuita1393
supplicationa1393
cravingc1430
entreating1525
solicitation1533
entreatance1548
precation1548
suiting1560
soliciting1570
imploration1575
importuning1582
implore1590
suing1591
treating1595
exoration1610
implorement1611
imploring1611
suppliance?1611
importunement1665
solicitancy1665
beseechmenta1680
instancing1736
suppliancy1812
beg1814
clamouring1884
opportuning1972
1814 J. Mayne Jrnl. 13 Sept. (1909) iii. 60 This was an invocation to some saint for a prosperous beg.
1912 Gambier-Parry Alleg. of Land iv. 134 Letters simply mean begs, bothers, and bills.
1920 Punch 30 June 508/1 Agenda and minutes and constituents' grievances, and charitable appeals and ordinary begs.
b. spec. in All Fours (U.S. Seven-up) (see beg v. 2h).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > all fours > begging
beg1897
1897 R. F. Foster Compl. Hoyle 289 [article Seven-up] No second beg is allowed, but when only two play, if either player is dissatisfied with the new trump he may propose to bunch the cards.
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begv.

Brit. /bɛɡ/, U.S. /bɛɡ/
Forms: Middle English beggen, Middle English–1600s begge, Middle English–1500s begg, 1500s (Scottish) bayg, Middle English– beg.
Etymology: Of uncertain origin.The notion that beg had to do with the bag carried by a beggar, as if he were a ‘bagger,’ finds no etymological corroboration. The Flemish beggen appealed to by Littré under Beguin has no existence (Cosijn). Mr. H. Sweet has suggested that Middle English beggen might be worn down from the rare Old English bedecian ‘to beg,’ found once (in Past. Care), and obscurely connected with Gothic bidagwa ‘beggar,’ < bidjan ‘to ask, beg.’ This has much to recommend it; but the phonetic connection of beggen and bedecian is by no means established, and there is the serious historical difficulty that no connecting links are to be found, there being no trace of the word in any form between K. Ælfred's bedecian before 900 and the regular use of the modern beg and beggar in the 13th cent. Perhaps the most likely derivation is from the Old French begart , begard , and begar , medieval Latin begardus = Beghard n., or its synonym beguin , Beguine n.1, and derivative verb beguigner , beguiner ‘to act the beguin.’ It is known that the Beghards or Beguins were, or soon became, a lay mendicant order, and that in the 13th cent. mendicants calling themselves, or called, by these names, swarmed over Western Europe, ‘laici, qui sub prætextis cujusdam religionis fictæ Begardos se appellant..qui extra religionem approbatam validam mendicantes discurrunt’ (Council of Treves 1310). It is notable that in one of the two passages where Britton has Anglo-Norman begger to beg (see 4 above), the reading of two 14th cent. manuscripts is beguigner, showing that this was at any rate identical in sense with ‘beg.’ So also we find in Sym. de Hesdin a1380 (Godefroy), ‘il n'y eust pas tant de begars et de begardes qui mengassent leur pain en oiseuse’ (there would not have been so many begards, male and female, to eat their bread in idleness), which strongly suggests the English beggar. About this time the words beggare and beggen arose in English: the exact process of their formation, and their actual relation to each other can only be conjectured: possibly begg-en was shortened < beguin-er, possibly it was taken < begg-are, and this directly < Old French begar above. The -are of the Ancren Riwle proves nothing, being the regular agent ending, as seen in bacbitare, demare, reuare, etc.
1. To ask alms or by way of alms.
a. transitive. To ask (bread, money, etc.) in alms or as a charitable gift; to procure (one's living) by begging.
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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > beg [verb (transitive)]
beg?c1225
thigc1300
emendicate1611
mang1811
bum1863
schnorr1892
panhandle1894
yegg1916
ding1935
mump-
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 263 Scheome ich cleopie eauer her..beggen as an harlot..his liuenað.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. vi. 195 Blynde and bedreden..þat seten to begge silver.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 28/2 Beggyn bodely fode.
c1500 Bk. Mayd Emlyn xxvii, in Poet. Tracts (Percy Soc.) 28 Longe or she were dede, She wente to begge her brede.
1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xxxvii. 25 Yet haue I not seene the righteous forsaken, nor his seede begging bread. View more context for this quotation
1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel i. Introd. 4 He begged his bread from door to door.
b. intransitive. To ask alms; esp. to ask alms habitually, to live by asking alms. Const. absol.; of, from, formerly at, a person; for alms.
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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > beg or be beggar [verb (intransitive)]
thigc1300
begc1384
crave1393
to go a-begged1393
prowl1530
to go (or have been) a begging1535
maund?1536
to bear the wallet1546
cant1567
prog1579
to turn to bag and wallet1582
skelder1602
maunder1611
strike1618
emendicate1623
mendicate1623
to go a-gooding1646
mump1685
shool1736
cadge1819
to stand pad1841
stag1860
bum1870
schnorr1875
panhandle1894
pling1915
stem1924
nickel-and-dime1942
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care 284 Hit is swiðe wel be ðæm gecweden ðæt he eft bedecige on sumera, & him mon ðonne noht ne selle.]
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John ix. 8 Thei that hadden seyn hym byfore..seiden, Wher this is not he, that sat, and beggide?
1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 4 Ther wente a lymytour aboute To preche and eek to begge.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4708 Þai war sa fele þat begand [Fairf. beggande] yode.
a1450 York Myst., Barbers 8 What riche man gose from dore to dore To begge at hym þat has right noght.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 446/1 I begge for the guylde of saynt Anthonye.
1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. B.ii Thou begst at a wronge dore, and so hast begde longe.
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. xlvii. 220 Fring'd and ymbroidred Petticoats now begge [i.e. are worn by beggars].
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles iv. 41 Those pallats..Would now be glad of bread and beg for it. View more context for this quotation
a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 392 We haue an ordinary saying..‘They which begge must not choose.’
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. Sept. (1965) I. 438 While the post horses are chang'd, the whole town comes out to beg.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. i. 74 Licences to beg were at that time granted.
2. transferred. To ask as a favour or act of grace; hence to ask humbly, earnestly, supplicatingly; to crave, entreat. (With many const.: cf. ask v.)
a. transitive. Const. of, from (formerly at). Also in colloquial phrase to beg, borrow, or steal. The early instances are closely connected with sense 1.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > render instrumental [verb (transitive)] > find means
to beg, borrow, or stealc1386
1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles iii. 149 Beggith and borwith of burgeis in tounes Ffurris of ffoyne, and oþer felle-ware.
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 3219 Þai may nathyng begg ne borowe, To help þam, þat þai war out broght [of purgatory].]
c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 6 Thou most for Indigence Or stele, or begge, or borwe thy dispence.
1526 Pilgr. Perf. (1531) The miserable nature of man..beggeth and craueth of god socour and relefe.1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Matt. xxvii. 58 Ioseph..went to Pilate and begged the body of Iesus.1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. i. 41 I beg the auncient priuiledge of Athens. View more context for this quotation1605 Bk. Com. Prayer, Gunpowd. Tr. All which we humbly beg for the sake of our blessed Lord and Saviour.1667 S. Pepys Diary 14 Feb. (1974) VIII. 61 All the world will believe, that we do go to beg a peace.1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 168. ⁋11 I beg the Favour of you..to send us Word.1746 H. Walpole Corr. 12 June I have three favours to beg of you.1752 C. Lennox Female Quixote I. ii. ix. 116 She refused to give him a glorious scarf which she wore, though he begged it on his knees.1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xxxviii. 177 He has taken in, Sir, the whole subject..—begging, borrowing, and stealing, as he went along.1794 F. Burney Let. 22 Mar. (1905) V. 240 He has been drawing a plan for it, which I intend to beg, borrow, or steal (all one), to give you some idea how seriously he studies.1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 146 The Florentines begged back his [sc. Dante's] body..the Ravenna people would not give it.1859 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 118/1 Not because they want to beg, borrow, or steal thoughts which are not theirs.
b. absol. or intransitive; with same const.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > request > make a request [verb (intransitive)] > beseech or implore
beseech?c1225
praya1250
plead1340
pursuec1390
implore?a1513
perplead1581
entreat1593
beg1598
oratec1600
contest1607
deprecate1626
imprecatea1645
obtest1650
prig1700
special-plead1814
plea1868
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 207 How I would make him fawne, and begge, and seeke. View more context for this quotation
1609 J. Skene tr. Stat. Robert II in Regiam Majestatem 48 Na Schiref..sall dar or presume to begge..fra the inhabitants of the cuntrie.
1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. i. 19 Apollo's awful Ensigns grace his Hands: By these he begs.
1845 T. Hood Last Man xxxvii In vain My desperate fancy begs.
c. To beg for a thing.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > request > make a request [verb (intransitive)] > for something
bid971
aska1200
seekc1366
cravec1386
entreat1427
inquire?a1513
beg1576
incall1591
urgea1616
woo1615
clamour1651
to call on ——1721
tout1731
spell1790
1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 35 Dogges..are taught..to begge for theyr meate.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus i. i. 452 Kneele in the streets and begge for grace in vaine. View more context for this quotation
1649 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer (new ed.) iii. 11 I must..begge for pardon.
1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People (1882) iv. §3. 177 Single-handed [he] forced him to beg for mercy.
d. To beg to do a thing, or that a thing may be.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)] > to do or have a thing
ask?c1400
require1479
request1565
beg1576
1576 F. Thynne Let. 19 Mar. in Animaduersions (1875) p. lvi I most humbly..do submytt my cause & my selfe, begginge, uppon the knees of my harte, to come before your Lordship.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 313 On my knees I beg, That you'l vouchsafe me rayment, bed and food. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. i. 72 I should haue begg'd I might haue bene employd. View more context for this quotation
1656 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa V. iii. iv. 208 I passionately begg'd to wait upon him.
1767 J. Wilkes Corr. (1805) III. 197 I shall very soon beg to call the public attention to some points of national importance.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 613 Shrewsbury begged that..he might be appointed.
e. To beg of a person for a thing. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > request > make a request [verb (intransitive)] > to, of, or upon someone
clepec825
cryc1290
to pray (one) of a boon1393
to call on ——a1400
to seek on (also upon)a1400
to call upon ——c1405
sue1405
supplicate1417
peala1425
labour1442
to make suit1447–8
supply1489
suit1526
appeal1540
apply1554
incalla1572
invocate1582
beg1600
palaver1859
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 109 If she be by, Begge of her, for remedy. View more context for this quotation
f. To beg of (formerly at) a person to do a thing, or that a thing may be.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > request > make a request [verb (intransitive)] > to, of, or upon someone > to do something
bega1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 236 He beg'd of me to steale it. View more context for this quotation
1665 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 174 Our prisoners..beg at us, as a mercy, to knock them on the head.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xxi. 154 I must beg of you to print a few lines, in explanation.
1799 R. Southey Eng. Eclogues in Poet. Wks. (1838) III. 35 [He] would come..and beg of me To tell him stories of his ancestors.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Dora in Poems (new ed.) II. 38 I will beg of him to take thee back.
g. transitive. To beg a person to do a thing.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)] > beseech or implore
beseechc1175
ofsechec1300
praya1350
praya1387
supply?c1400
treatc1450
entreatc1475
solicitate1563
bepray1598
exore1598
exorate1599
implorea1616
deprecate1624
beg1675
implead1682
fleech1718
impetrate1881
the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)] > a person to do something
crave?c1225
seek1362
requirec1380
aska1400
require1415
to call upon ——a1450
will?1457
requestc1485
bespeaka1616
beg1675
1675 Earl of Shaftesbury Let. Person of Qual. 5 He beg'd me to consider..whether in such a case, [etc.]
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 117. ¶5 I beg'd my friend Sir Roger to go with me.
1778 ‘H. Bowman’ Trav. 266 I begged him to explain himself.
1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People (1882) iii. §5. 142 The king..begged him to write the story of the day's proceedings.
h. Cards. In All Fours (U.S. Seven-up), to ask for a point, or three additional cards and a new trump (said of the elder hand).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [verb (transitive)] > actions in specific games > in all fours
beg1793
1793 Sporting Mag. 2 160/1 The Duke of York and Lord Barrymore were playing the game of All Fours... The Duke..overlooked his cards, and..begged one, which was granted, though he held the ace, deuce, and jack of trumps.
1800 E. Hoyle & C. Jones Hoyle's Games Improved 308 The Game of All-Fours... If the eldest [hand] don't like his cards, he may, for once in a hand, say, I beg, when the dealer must either give a point or three more cards to each..player.
1890 M. E. Ryan Told in Hills 255 Why, you are begging on a full hand, Mister.
1897 R. F. Foster Compl. Hoyle 289 If the eldest hand is not satisfied, he says: I beg; and the dealer, after examining his own hand, has the option of giving him a point or running the cards.
1897 R. F. Foster Compl. Hoyle 290 Begging is resorted to by a player who holds no trumps.
i. Said of a dog trained to sit up and hold up its fore paws when told to beg.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [verb (intransitive)] > act in particular way
fawna1250
stoop?1530
kennel1552
fetch-and-carrya1616
to cock one's ears1714
beg1816
toll1851
trust1939
1816 Sporting Mag. 48 23/2 He began to teach me [sc. a puppy] to beg, and to fetch and carry.
1837 J. Prior Life Goldsmith II. 33 Teaching a favourite dog to sit upright upon its haunches, or as is commonly said, to beg.
1854 J. G. Wood Sketches Animal Life 98 Four cats..had taught themselves the art of begging like a dog... They waited until they saw the dog sit up in the begging position, and immediately assumed the same attitude.
1884 Cent. Mag. Dec. 198/2 To squat back and raise his front legs from the ground, much in the position of a ‘begging’ poodle.
1927 E. V. Lucas More I see of Men iv. 32 He begs even when there is no meal in progress.
3.
a. In beg pardon, beg excuse, beg leave, etc.: beside the strict sense as in 2, the whole expression is often merely a courteous or apologetic mode of asking what is expected, or even of taking as a matter of course.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > permit [verb (intransitive)] > ask permission
beg leave1604
beg1767
society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > forgiveness > grant forgiveness [verb (intransitive)] > ask forgiveness
to cry (a person) mercyc1225
beg pardon1604
beg excuse1734
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. vii. 43 To morrow shall I begge leaue to see your kingly eyes. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. v. 6 Falls not the axe vpon the humbled neck, But first begs pardon. View more context for this quotation
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 74. ¶2 I must however beg Leave to dissent from so great an Authority.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 74. ⁋15 I shall only beg Pardon for such a Profusion of Latin Quotations.
1734 I. Watts Reliquiæ Juveniles lxxvi. 343 In the Business of Transubstantiation, he begs your Excuse.
1754 Earl of Chatham Lett. to Nephew (1804) iv. 22 There is likewise a particular attention required to contradict with good manners; such as, begging pardon, begging leave to doubt, and such like phrases.
1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 21 You begged my pardon.
1887 N.E.D. at Beg Mod. I beg your pardon; I did not quite catch what you said. I have received your letter, and beg leave to say in reply…
b. elliptical for beg leave at sense 3a.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > permit [verb (intransitive)] > ask permission
beg leave1604
beg1767
1767 J. Wilkes Corr. (1805) III. 197 I shall very soon beg to call the public attention to some points of national importance.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 29 Oct. 7/3 You say, ‘I beg to take exception’, which, of course, is not English at all. You mean, ‘I beg (leave) to take exception’.
c. Also elliptical in epistolary formulas of goodwill: to desire to send, to offer.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > correspondence > sending items > send items [verb (transitive)] > desire to send compliments or regards
beg1755
1755 H. Walpole Let. 7 Jan. (1903) III. 277 He would..beg his compliments to Miss Montagu.
1816 A. Constable Let. 9 July in J. Constable Corr. (1962) 137 I am glad to hear so good an account of Miss B's health, I beg best regards.
1836 C. Dickens Let. 27 Feb. (1965) I. 134 Begging my best remembrances to Mrs. Thomson.
1839 C. Dickens Let. ?Apr. (1965) I. 546 Begging my best compliments at home.
4. In Anglo-Norman and probably also in English ‘begger to beg’ was used euphemistically in sense of ‘exact as a benevolence’.
ΚΠ
1292 Britton i. xxii. §11 Et de ceux qi coillent garbes en Aust, agneus et purceus, et issi vount begaunt, et les fount norir en lour baillies al grevaunce del people.
1292 Britton i. xxii. §15 Touz nos autres, qe gentz de religioum et autres gentz grevent..par begger [v.r. beguigner] merrym ou fustz ou autre chose a eus.
5.
a. to beg a person: to petition the Court of Wards (established by Henry VIII, and suppressed under Charles II) for the custody of a minor, an heiress, or a feeble-minded person, as feudal superior or as having interest in the matter; hence also (figurative) to beg (any one) for a fool or idiot: to take him for, set him down as, a fool. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > as a fool
to beg (any one) for a fool or idiot1587
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > carry on or institute (an action) [verb (transitive)] > petition for custody
to beg a person1587
1587 D. Fenner Def. Godlie Ministers sig. Hii Then would you haue proued vs asses, not begged vs..for innocents.
1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper 71 It is time to begg the for a swagg.
1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. E2v He prooued a wiser man by muche, then hee that begged him.
1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) iii. i. 81 He may be begd for an ideot.
1636 W. Davenant Witts v. sig. K3 I feare you will Be begg'd at Court, unlesse you come off thus.
1639 J. Mayne Citye Match ii. vi And that a great man Did mean to beg you for—his daughter.
1696 E. Stillingfleet 12 Serm. ii. 59 That we may not therefore seem to beg all wicked men for fools.
1736 Ld. Hervey Mem. II. 143 Moyle either deserved to be..begged for a fool, or hanged for a knave.
b. to beg off (transitive, and intransitive for reflexive): to obtain by entreaty the release of (any one), or of oneself, from a penalty, or liability.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by asking, entreaty, or importunity > the release of
to beg off1740
1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 292 What, said she, is the Creature begging me off from Insult?
1854 E. Ruskin Let. 28 Feb. in M. Lutyens Millais & Ruskins (1967) 145 What does John do but..say that he wishes to beg off to dine with his Father and Mother.
a1884 Mod. He promised at first to go with us, but he has since begged off.
1966 Amer. Speech 41 174 He begged off because he had just moved from his librarianship at Kassel.
6. To take for granted without warrant; esp. in to beg the question: to take for granted the matter in dispute, to assume without proof.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [verb (intransitive)] > beg the question
to beg the question1581
1581 W. Charke in A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion (1584) iv. sig. F f iij I say this is still to begge the question.
1680 Bp. G. Burnet Some Passages Life Rochester (1692) 82 This was to assert or beg the thing in Question.
1687 E. Settle Refl. Dryden's Plays 13 Here hee's at his old way of Begging the meaning.
1788 T. Reid Aristotle's Logic v. §3. 118 Begging the question is when the thing to be proved is assumed in the premises.
1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith (ed. 2) 251 Many say it is begging the point in dispute.
1870 F. C. Bowen Logic ix. 294 The vulgar equivalent for petitio principii is begging the question.
7. To make (one's way) begging.
ΚΠ
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xliv. 38 To-morrow we will beg our way to some quiet part of the country.

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intransitive. figurative. Usually with for or infinitive. In humorous or ironic use: (of a person or, more often, a thing) to be, or appear to be, in pressing need of something; to urgently demand or call for some treatment or action. Cf. ask v. Phrases 13.
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1888 Now & Then Sept. 22/2 Plenty of water—pure, cold, soft and sparkling—is just begging to be brought to town.
1913 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Dec. 767 So many of 'em [sc. New Yorkers] just begging to be stripped that there 's hardly enough thieves to go round.
1924 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 25 Feb. 6/5 The English Breakfast was a terribly dull..thing, and begged for the brightening influence of fruits.
1951 Life 4 June 24 (advt.) Eight inviting varieties [of cheese spread] begging to be tasted!
1960 F. Yerby Gillian 74 Subconsciously, he wanted to suffer; he was fairly begging to be punished for murdering his father.
1987 Changing Times June 61/1 The [Mercedes] 300TD is as solid as a tank. On the road, it begs to be driven hard and accelerates well.
2000 J. Pemberton Forever & Ever Amen xiii. 83 The egg..with its top open showing..golden yolk all runny and yummy, begging to be dunked.
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