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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Beghard \Be*ghard"\ Beguard \Be*guard"\, n. [F. b['e]gard,
     b['e]guard; cf. G. beghard, LL. Beghardus, Begihardus,
     Begardus. Prob. from the root of beguine + -ard or -hard. See
     {Beguine}.] (Eccl. Hist.)
     One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation
     of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were


     afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed
     by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins.
     [1913 Webster]

















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