begarda (from fr. begard , from neerl. beggaert , mendicant monk) n. It applies to certain heretics of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, who professed doctrines very similar to those of the Gnostics and enlightened, defending among other things the impeccability of the human soul when it came to the direct vision of God, something possible in this life. Beguino. adj Of these heretics.
