Begging; poor to a state of beggary; as reduced to a mendicant state.

Practicing beggary; as a mendicant friar.

A beggar; one that makes it his business to beg alms; one of the begging fraternity of the Romish church. in England, felons, taking refuge in a church, and confessing their guilt, could not be arrested and tried, but might save their lives by abjuring the realm; that is by taking an oath to quit the kingdom forever. ABJURATION.

A rejection or denial with solemnity; a total abandonment; as “an abjuration of heresy." ABJURATION.