ppl. a. [f. BEGGAR v. + -ED1.] Reduced to destitution; impoverished.

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1599.  Shaks., Hen. V., IV. ii. 43. Bigge Mars seemes banqu’rout in their begger’d Hoast.

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1790.  Burke, Fr. Rev., Wk. V. 88. The discredited paper securities of impoverished fraud, and beggared rapine, held out as a currency for the support of an empire.

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1857.  Buckle, Civiliz., I. xi. 653. A rapacious government, and a beggared exchequer.

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  fig.  c. 1600.  Shaks., Sonn., lxvii. Beggerd of blood to blush through liuely vaines.

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1742.  Young, Nt. Th., iv. 425. Their beggar’d blaze wants lustre for my lay.

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