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beggar

BEG'GAR, n. [See Beg.] One that lives by asking alms, or makes it his business to beg for charity.

1. One who supplicates with humility; a petitioner; but in this sense rarely used, as the word has become a term of contempt.

2. One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.

BEG'GAR, v.t. To reduce to beggary; to impoverish.

1. To deprive or make destitute; to exhaust; as, to beggar description.


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BEG'GAR, n. [See Beg.] One that lives by asking alms, or makes it his business to beg for charity.

1. One who supplicates with humility; a petitioner; but in this sense rarely used, as the word has become a term of contempt.

2. One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.

BEG'GAR, v.t. To reduce to beggary; to impoverish.

1. To deprive or make destitute; to exhaust; as, to beggar description.

BEG'GAR, n. [See Beg.]

  1. One that lives by asking alms, or makes it his business to beg for charity.
  2. One who supplicates with humility; a petitioner; but in this sense rarely used, as the word has become a term of contempt. – Johnson.
  3. One who assumes in argument what he does not prove. – Tillotson.

BEG'GAR, v.t.

  1. To reduce to beggary; to impoverish. – Shak.
  2. To deprive, or make destitute; to exhaust; as, to beggar description.

Beg"gar
  1. One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.
  2. To reduce to beggary] to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.

    Milton.
  3. One who makes it his business to ask alms.
  4. To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.

    It beggared all description.
    Shak.

  5. One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use.
  6. One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.

    Abp. Tillotson.
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Beggar

BEG'GAR, noun [See Beg.] One that lives by asking alms, or makes it his business to beg for charity.

1. One who supplicates with humility; a petitioner; but in this sense rarely used, as the word has become a term of contempt.

2. One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.

BEG'GAR, verb transitive To reduce to beggary; to impoverish.

1. To deprive or make destitute; to exhaust; as, to beggar description.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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FASH'ION, n. fash'on. [L. facio, facies.]

1. The make or form of any thing; the state of any thing with regard to its external appearance; shape; as the fashion of the ark, or of the tabernacle.

Or let me lose the fashion of a man.

The fashion of his countenance was altered. Luke 9.

2. Form; model to be imitated; pattern.

King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar. 2Kings 16.

3. The form of a garment; the cut or shape of clothes; as the fashion of a coat or of a bonnet. Hence,

4. The prevailing mode of dress or ornament. We import fashions from England, as the English often import them from France. What so changeable as fashion!

5. Manner; sort; way; mode; applied to actions or behavior.

Pluck Casca by the sleeve,

And he will, after his sour fashion, tell you

What hath proceeded.

6. Custom; prevailing mode or practice. fashion is an inexorable tyrant, and most of the world its willing slaves.

It was the fashion of the age to call every thing in question.

Few enterprises are so hopeless as a contest with fashion.

7. Genteel life or good breeding; as men of fashion.

8. Any thing worn. [Not used.]

9. Genteel company.

10. Workmanship.

FASH'ION, v.t. fash'on.

1. To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.

Here the loud hammer fashions female toys.

Aaron fashioned the calf with a graving tool. Ex. 32.

Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, what makes thou? Is. 14.

2. To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; with to.

Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.

3. To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.

Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.

4. To forge or counterfeit. [Not used.]

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