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Beguin

Brass medal. Obverse: Beguine facing to the right between four stars and year within serrated edge. Reverse: inscription above number 36
Brass medal. Obverse: Beguine facing to the right between four stars and year within serrated edge. Reverse: inscription above number 36
Illustrations
Beguines in conversation at the front door of a house at the Begijnhof in Amsterdam.
Beguines in conversation at the front door of a house at the Begijnhof in Amsterdam.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Beguin
    See Beghard.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) beguin
    A name given to the members of various religious communities of women who, professing a life of poverty and self-denial, went about in coarse gray clothing (of undyed wool), reading the Scriptures and exhorting the people. They originated in the twelfth or thirteenth century, and formerly flourished in Germany, the Netherlands, France, and Italy; and communities of the name still exist in Belgium. See beguinage.
  2. (n) beguin
    [Only Beguin.] A member of a community of men founded on the same general principle of life as that of the Beguines (see 1). They became infected with various heresies, especially with systems of illuminism, which were afterward propagated among the communities of women. They were condemned by Pope John XXII. in the early part of the fourteenth century. The faithful Beguins joined themselves in numbers with the different orders of friars. The sect, generally obnoxious and the object of severe measures, had greatly diminished by the following century, but continued to exist till about the middle of the sixteenth. Also called Beghard.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F

Usage in the news

David Beguin 's Home Based Internet Marketing Business Recently Joined The 90 Day Internet Income Challenge. dng.net

LCWR and the Beguines . commonwealmagazine.org

Begin the Beguine at The Chanticleer . salisburypost.com

Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine," a favorite song of listener Melanie Cowart's parents, became a fitting symbol for their relationship. northcountrypublicradio.org

A NEW BEGINNING FOR THE BEGUINES. commonwealmagazine.org

Guests at Tom and Carol Lund's Bay Colony home party at their Naples Winter Wine Festival dinner themed Begin the Beguine and co-hosted by Jim and Linda Malone. naplesnews.com

Usage in literature

And now the palace of glass was shivered, and she was forsaken for a peasant beguine. "The Path of the King" by John Buchan

She hooked like one of the Beguines of my own country. "The Caged Lion" by Charlotte M. Yonge

I admit a knowledge of a Beguine, but I deny all knowledge of Madame de Chevreuse. "Louise de la Valliere" by Alexandre Dumas, Pere

BIGGIN, cap, similar to that worn by the Beguines; nightcap. "Volpone; Or, The Fox" by Ben Jonson

BIGGIN, cap, similar to that worn by the Beguines; nightcap. "The Alchemist" by Ben Jonson

A single upturned wagon was placed across the entrance to the important street of the Beguins. "The Rise of the Dutch Republic, Volume III.(of III) 1574-84" by John Lothrop Motley

BIGGIN, cap, similar to that worn by the Beguines; nightcap. "The Poetaster" by Ben Jonson

Elle avait son beguin. "Punch, Or The London Charivari, VOL. 100. Feb. 28, 1891" by Various

A old Beguine was reading her breviary in an adjoining room. "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine--Vol. 54, No. 333, July 1843" by Various

I admit a knowledge of a Beguine, but I deny all knowledge of Madame de Chevreuse. "The Vicomte de Bragelonne" by Alexandre Dumas