[f. as prec. + -LY2.] After the manner of a beggar or of one who begs; a. indigently, meanly; b. suppliantly, entreatingly.

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c. 1400.  Rom. Rose, 223. And both bihynde & eke biforne Clouted was she beggarly.

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1551.  Robinson, trans. More’s Utopia (1869), 67. The resydewe lyve myserablye, wretchedlye, and beggerlye.

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1633.  Donne, Poems (1650), 122. But he is worst, who (beggerly) doth chaw Others wits fruits.

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1850.  Mrs. Browning, Poems, I. 58. Eve, who beggarly entreats your love.

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