'Beggary' definitions:
Definition of 'beggary'
(from WordNet)
noun
A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) [syn: beggary, begging, mendicancy]
noun
The state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy" [syn: beggary, mendicancy, mendicity]
Definition of 'Beggary'
From: GCIDE
- Beggary \Beg"gar*y\, n. [OE. beggerie. See Beggar, n.]
- 1. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Beggarly appearance. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- The freedom and the beggary of the old studio. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Indigence; want; penury; mendicancy. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Beggary'
From: GCIDE
- Beggary \Beg"gar*y\, a. Beggarly. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'beggary'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absence,
- bare cupboard,
- bare subsistence,
- beggarliness,
- begging,
- bumming,
- cadging,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- deprivation,
- destitution,
- drought,
- empty purse,
- famine,
- grinding poverty,
- gripe,
- hand-to-mouth existence,
- homelessness,
- impecuniousness,
- imperfection,
- impoverishment,
- incompleteness,
- indigence,
- lack,
- mendicancy,
- mendicity,
- moneylessness,
- mooching,
- necessitousness,
- necessity,
- need,
- neediness,
- omission,
- panhandling,
- pauperism,
- pauperization,
- penury,
- pinch,
- privation,
- scrounging,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- starvation,
- want,
- wantage