About The Word Mendicant
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Mendicant
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What's The Definition Of Mendicant?
[n] a pauper who lives by begging
[n] a male religious of an order of mendicant preachers of the gospel [adj] practicing beggary; "mendicant friars" Synonyms | Synonyms for Mendicant: beggar | beseeching | friar Related Terms | Find terms related to Mendicant: abbacomes | abbot | abstainer | abstinent | Albigensian | anchorite | anchoritic | ascetic | austere | beadsman | beggar | beggared | beggarly | begging | bereaved | bereft | bhikshu | brother | bum | bummer | cadger | cadging | caloyer | Catharist | celibate | cenobite | conventual | conventual prior | coupon clippers | deprived | dervish | disadvantaged | drone | eremitic | fakir | flagellant | fleeced | Franciscan | freeloader | friar | ghettoized | grand prior | hermit | hieromonach | hobo | idle rich | impoverished | in need | in rags | in want | indigent | lay abbot | lay brother | leisure class | loafer | lounge lizard | lumpen proletariat | mendicant friar | mendicant order | monastic | monk | moocher | mooching | necessitous | needy | nonworker | on relief | out at elbows | palmer | panhandler | parasite | pauperized | petitionary | pilgrim | pillar saint | pillarist | poverty-stricken | prayerful | precative | prior | puritan | puritanical | religieux | religious | rentiers | rigoristic | Sabbatarian | sannyasi | schnorrer | scrounger | scrounging | self-denying | spiv | sponger | starveling | stripped | stylite | suppliant | supplicant | supplicating | supplicatory | the unemployable | the unemployed | tramp | Trappist | underprivileged | Waldensian | wedded to poverty | yogi | yogin See Also | beggarman | beggarwoman | Black Friar | Blackfriar | cadger | Carmelite | Dominican | Franciscan | Gray Friar | Lazarus | moocher | panhandler | pauper | poor man | religious | scrounger | White Friar Mendicant In Webster's Dictionary \Men"di*cant\, a. [L. mendicans, -antis, p. pr. of
mendicare to beg, fr. mendicus beggar, indigent.]
Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant
friars.
{Mendicant orders} (R. C. Ch.), certain monastic orders which
are forbidden to acquire landed property and are required
to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the
Dominicans, the Carmelites, and the Augustinians.
\Men"di*cant\, n. A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar. |
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