beggaring the question

Verb

beggar the question (third-person singular simple present beggars the question, present participle beggaring the question, simple past and past participle beggared the question)

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