See beggar the question on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "By alteration of beg the question.", "forms": [ { "form": "beggars the question", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "beggaring the question", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "beggared the question", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "beggared the question", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*" }, "expansion": "beggar the question (third-person singular simple present beggars the question, present participle beggaring the question, simple past and past participle beggared the question)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Logical fallacies", "orig": "en:Logical fallacies", "parents": [ "Logic", "Rhetoric", "Formal sciences", "Philosophy", "Language", "Sciences", "All topics", "Communication", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "text": "1964, Hearings of the Special Subcommittee on Construction of Military Hospital Facilities of the Committee on Armed Services, No. 64, United States Congress, p. 9823.\nSo this could and can be done but, of course, that beggars the question of putting these people on the civilian economy." }, { "ref": "1997, Issy Pilowsky, Abnormal Illness Behaviour, John Wiley, pages 16–17:", "text": "Unfortunately, this definition beggars the question because we are left not knowing what it is that allows access to the sick role, but prefer not to seek it.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To beg the question." ], "id": "en-beggar_the_question-en-verb-aL3LsAaw", "links": [ [ "beg the question", "beg the question" ] ] } ], "word": "beggar the question" }
{ "etymology_text": "By alteration of beg the question.", "forms": [ { "form": "beggars the question", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "beggaring the question", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "beggared the question", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "beggared the question", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*" }, "expansion": "beggar the question (third-person singular simple present beggars the question, present participle beggaring the question, simple past and past participle beggared the question)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English proscribed terms", "English terms with quotations", "English verbs", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "en:Logical fallacies" ], "examples": [ { "text": "1964, Hearings of the Special Subcommittee on Construction of Military Hospital Facilities of the Committee on Armed Services, No. 64, United States Congress, p. 9823.\nSo this could and can be done but, of course, that beggars the question of putting these people on the civilian economy." }, { "ref": "1997, Issy Pilowsky, Abnormal Illness Behaviour, John Wiley, pages 16–17:", "text": "Unfortunately, this definition beggars the question because we are left not knowing what it is that allows access to the sick role, but prefer not to seek it.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To beg the question." ], "links": [ [ "beg the question", "beg the question" ] ] } ], "word": "beggar the question" }
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