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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Be·ghard  Be·guard n.  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.