[f. BEG v. + -ED1.]
1. Obtained or sustained by begging.
1570–87. Holinshed, Scot. Chron. (1806), II. 121. To lead a bare and begged life.
1641. Smectymnuus, Vind. Answ., 30. What the Bishop of Salisbury saith in his begged suffrage.
2. Begged fool: see BEG v. 5.
1693. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen., 621. Beg’d fools, insigniter stulti, qui gemmas vitro, aurum plumbo permutarent.
