[f. BEG v. + -ING2.] That begs, mendicant; spec. in Begging friar.
1583. Exec. for Treason (1675), 32. Forced to go up and down in the streets … like a begging Fryer.
1591. Spenser, M. Hubberd, 198. A ciuile begging sect.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XVII. 657. With the begging kind Shame suits but ill.
1766. Entick, London, IV. 80. An order of begging friars.
