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Definition of Beg off
1. Verb. Ask for permission to be released from an engagement.
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
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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