Definition of Beg off

1. Verb. Ask for permission to be released from an engagement.

Exact synonyms: Excuse
Generic synonyms: Bespeak, Call For, Quest, Request
Derivative terms: Excuse

Definition of Beg off

1. Verb. (idiomatic) To avoid, or cancel some event that one has previously arranged with someone. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beg Off

befringe
befringed
befringes
befringing
befrogged
befuddle
befuddled
befuddlement
befuddlements
befuddles
befuddling
befuddlingly
befuraline
befurred
beg
beg off
beg the question
beg to differ
begad
begadkefat
begadkephat
begall
begalled
begalling
begalls
began
beganne
beganst
begar
begarlanded

Literary usage of Beg off

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Caesar's Gallic war: (Allen and Greenough's edition) by Julius Caesar, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge, Moses Grant Daniell (1904)
"... cf. deprecor], M., a mediator (to beg off something for somebody) : eo ... pray (with accessory notion of relief), beg, beg off, pray for pardon, ..."

2. Yale Lectures on Preaching: And Other Writings by Nathaniel Judson Burton, Richard E Burton (1888)
"Well, if I had not my routine established, I should beg off sometimes. ... So I incline to beg-off. And I not merely beg but I reason. ..."

3. The Epistles to Timothy and Titus by Alfred Edward Humphreys (1895)
"18, 'with one consent began to beg off;' Acts xxv. n, 'If I have committed anything worthy of death I do not beg off from death;' Heb. xii. ..."

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