Hypertext Webster Gateway: "beggary"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Beggary \Beg"gar*y\, a.
Beggarly. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Beggary \Beg"gar*y\, n. [OE. beggerie. See {Beggar}, n.]
1. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar;
mendicancy; extreme poverty.
2. Beggarly appearance. [R.]
The freedom and the beggary of the old studio.
--Thackeray.
Syn: Indigence; want; penury; mendicancy.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
beggary
n 1: a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street
by an apparently penniless person) [syn: {begging}, {mendicancy}]
2: a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence
appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the
homeless" [syn: {indigence}, {need}, {penury}, {pauperism}]
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