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 beg /ˈbɛg/
 (vt.)請求,懇求;乞求,乞討(vi.)乞討,乞求

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

 Beg v. t. [imp. & p. p. Begged p. pr. & vb. n. Begging.]
 1. To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.
    I do beg your good will in this case.   --Shak.
    [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus.   --Matt. xxvii. 58.
 Note: 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.   --Ps. xxxvii. 25.
 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 guardiln for, or to aso to havo a guardian appointed for.
    Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.   --Harrington.
 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 beg 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.
 Usage: 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, 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.   --Luke xvi. 3.
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 beg
      v 1: call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!"
           [syn: implore, pray]
      2: 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" [syn: solicit, tap]
      3: ask to obtain free; "beg money and food"
      [also: begging, begged]

 Beg
    That the poor existed among the Hebrews we have abundant
    evidence (Ex. 23:11; Deut. 15:11), but there is no mention of
    beggars properly so called in the Old Testament. The poor were
    provided for by the law of Moses (Lev. 19:10; Deut. 12:12;
    14:29). It is predicted of the seed of the wicked that they
    shall be beggars (Ps. 37:25; 109:10).
      In the New Testament we find not seldom mention made of
    beggars (Mark 10:46; Luke 16:20, 21; Acts 3:2), yet there is no
    mention of such a class as vagrant beggars, so numerous in the
    East. "Beggarly," in Gal. 4:9, means worthless.