▪ I. ˈbeggaring, vbl. n.
[f. beggar v. + -ing1.]
Reduction to beggary. (Now gerundial.)
| a 1536 Tindale Wks. 375 (R.) Vnto the vtter beggering of our selues. 1609 Man in Moone (1849) 8 His childrens beggering, if he be a father. 1674 Brevint Saul at Endor 235 For fear of beggering themselves. |
▪ II. ˈbeggaring, ppl. a.
[f. beggar v. + -ing2.]
That beggars or brings to beggary, ruinous.
| 1883 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 308 A hundred ducats raised..at beggaring interest. |