About The Word Mendicancy

Bay Area Crosswords

Learn about the word Mendicancy to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Mendicancy definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.

Mendicancy

Mendicancy Meaning & Definition
Mendicancy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mendicancy?

[n] a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Mendicancy: beggary | begging

Related Terms | Find terms related to Mendicancy: bare cupboard | bare subsistence | beggarliness | beggary | begging | bumming | cadging | deprivation | destitution | empty purse | grinding poverty | gripe | hand-to-mouth existence | homelessness | impoverishment | indigence | lack | mendicity | moneylessness | mooching | necessitousness | necessity | need | neediness | panhandling | pauperism | pauperization | penury | pinch | privation | scrounging | sponging | want

See Also | solicitation

Mendicancy In Webster's Dictionary

\Men"di*can*cy\, n. The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. --Burke.

More Crossword Puzzle Words

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Cross Word Of The Day

  • Dreadful ‐ causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk";…
  • Fahrenheit scale ‐ a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water…
  • Tetragrammaton ‐ four Hebrew letters (usually transliterated as YHWH (Yahweh)…
  • Research worker ‐ a scientist who devotes himself to…
  • Hamitic language ‐ a group of North African languages related…
  • Yellow lupine ‐ yellow-flowered European lupine cultivated…
  • Israeli ‐ a native or inhabitant of Israel [adj] of or relating to or characteristic…
  • Bird-scarer ‐ an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away…
  • Smoothbore ‐ of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside…
  • Affective disorder ‐ any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities…