beg

[Beg]

To beg is to ask for something in an earnest, pleading way. You might beg your roommates to be quiet if you're desperately trying to get some sleep.

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A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

Verb
call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!"

Verb
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"

Verb
ask to obtain free; "beg money and food"

n.
A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

v. t.
To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.

v. t.
To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.

v. t.
To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.

v. t.
To take for granted; to assume without proof.

v. t.
To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.

v. i.
To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.

Beg

Beg , n. [Turk. beg, pronounced bay. Cf. Bey, Begum.] A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

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.
[Joseph] begged the body of Jesus.
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.
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. 5. (Old Law) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.
Hence: To beg (one) for a fool, to take him for a fool. I beg to, is an elliptical expression for I beg leave to; as, I beg to inform you. -- To bag 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. Syn. -- To Beg, Ask, Request. 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.

Beg

Beg, v. i. To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed.

A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.

To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.

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Usage Examples

I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Dear Lord we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.