begging ness

[Eng. begging; -ne .] Needine , beggary. IMG:content-1194.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Certain religious people who a ociated themselves into a kind of monastic lodging house under a chief, whilst they were unmarried, retiring when they pleased. As they often supported themselves by weaving, they were sometimes called "Brother Weavers. They first attracted notice in the Netherlands in the thirteenth century. They were established at Antwerp in 1228, and adopted the third rule of St. Francis in 1290. (Mosheim.) 2. The body described under 1 seems to have lingered in diminishing numbers till the seventeenth cent., when they were absorbed by the "tertiaries" of the Francis cans. By the third rule of St. Francis, those might have a certain loose connection with this order, who, without forsaking their worldly busine , or forbearing to marry, yet dre ed poorly, were continent, prayerful, and grave in manners. 3. Used loosely as an abusive epithet for the Albigenses, Waldenses, . beg'-gar-li-ne , * běg'-ger-lý-ně e, s. [Eng. beggarly; -ne .) The quality of being * be-ghost', v.t. [Pref. be- , and Eng. ghost .] beggarly; meanne . "They went about to hinder the journey, by railing on the beggarline of it, and discrediting of it."Lord Wimbled on to the Duke of Bucking ham. Cabala (1654), р. 136. ( Todd .)