beggar the question

present singular third person beggars the question · participle present beggaring the question · participle past beggared the question · past beggared the question

1. To beg the question.

   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. So this could and can be done but, of course, that beggars the question of putting these people on the civilian economy.

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   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.

   1997, Issy Pilowsky, Abnormal Illness Behaviour, John Wiley, pages 16–17