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Definition of Beghard
1. n. One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins.
Definition of Beghard
1. a man living monastic life without vows [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beghard
Literary usage of Beghard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1894)
"... an open door,—the Franciscan brothers being especially numerous, —and entered
into peculiarly intimate relations with the beghard societies which had ..."
2. Mosheim's Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern by Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1867)
"But secondly, tho term beghard In this century also denoted a man who prayed wry
... These characters caused the appellation beghard or Béguin to become ..."
3. An ecclesiastical history, antient and modern, from the birth of Christ to by Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (1810)
"... but only in their manner, xm- 1 ' r PART II. of changed beghard into ...
so that those who in Holland and Germany were called beghard and ..."
4. An Ecclesiastical History, from the Birth of Christ to the Beginning of the by Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1842)
"The words beghard or ... But the French substituted the Latin termination in
place of the German, and changed beghard into ..."
5. Communism in Central Europe in the Time of the Reformation by Karl Kautsky (1897)
"Communal housekeeping—eg, that of the monasteries and the beghard ... And in the
others—beghard houses and similar institutions—the development was hindered ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The earliest Flemish beghard communities were associations mainly of artisans
who earned 1 In the year 1287 the council of Liege decreed that " all ..."
7. Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern: In Four Books by Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1841)
"The Germans and the Dutch say beghard and Beguile ; which are the forms most used
in the ancient German language. But the French substituted the Latin ..."
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