Plead verb To beg, beseech, or implore. Beg verb transitive to assume, in the phrase beg the question. Plead verb To argue in support of a claim, or in defense against the claim of another; to urge reasons for or against a thing; to attempt to persuade one by argument or supplication; to speak by way of persuasion; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead with a judge or with a father.
Beg verb proscribed to raise a question, in the phrase beg the question. Plead verb To present an answer, by allegation of fact, to the declaration of a plaintiff; to deny the plaintiff's declaration and demand, or to allege facts which show that ought not to recover in the suit; in a less strict sense, to make an allegation of fact in a cause; to carry on the allegations of the respective parties in a cause; to carry on a suit or plea.
Beg verb To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for. Plead verb To contend; to struggle. Beg noun a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey. Plead verb To discuss, defend, and attempt to maintain by arguments or reasons presented to a tribunal or person having uthority to determine; to argue at the bar; as, to plead a cause before a court or jury.
Beg noun A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey. Plead verb To allege or cite in a legal plea or defense, or for repelling a demand in law; to answer to an indictment; as, to plead usury; to plead statute of limitations; to plead not guilty. Beg verb To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.
Plead verb To allege or adduce in proof, support, or vendication; to offer in excuse; as, the law of nations may be pleaded in favor of the rights of ambassadors. Beg verb To ask for as a charity, esp. Beg verb To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor. Beg verb To take for granted; to assume without proof. Beg verb To ask to be appointed guardiln for, or to aso to havo a guardian appointed for. Plead verb make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts.
Beg verb To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms. Popular Comparisons. Adress vs. From the beginning, pled has faced competition from the regular form pleaded , which eventually came to predominate in mainstream British English.
Pled was and is used in Scottish English, which is likely how it came to American English. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, pled was attacked by many American usage commentators perhaps because it was not in good British use.
Though still sometimes criticized, it is fully respectable today and both pled or plead and pleaded are in good use in the U. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'plead. Send us feedback. Middle English pleden, plaiden , from Anglo-French plaider, pleder , from plai plea.
See more words from the same century. Accessed 12 Nov. See the full definition for plead in the English Language Learners Dictionary. Anglo-French plaider to argue in a court of law, from Old French plaid legal action, trial — more at plea. Nglish: Translation of plead for Spanish Speakers.
Britannica English: Translation of plead for Arabic Speakers. Members Current visitors. Interface Language. Log in. Install the app. Forums English Only English Only. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. Vivian, whose eyes seemed to plead with him more than ever. Whether advocates and orators had liberty to plead in causes, manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive?
He will die of a broken heart, and will plead against me at the judgment-seat. Put me in remembrance, and let us plead together: tell if thou hast any thing to justify thyself. And the Duke of Wellington refused to plead for the Marshal, for he said "it was absolutely necessary to make an example.
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