One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.
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A packman or itinerant huckster.
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To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
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To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.
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A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.
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To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
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To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
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In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
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In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
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Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars.
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To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry.
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