Mendicant
['mendɪk(ə)nt] or ['mɛndɪkənt]
解释:
(a.) Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars.
(n.) A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.
伊娃手打
同义词及近义词:
n. Beggar, pauper, starveling, poor or indigent person.
艾哈迈德校对
解释:
adj. in the condition of a beggar: practising beggary.—n. one who is in extreme want: a beggar: a member of one of the R.C. orders who live by begging: a begging friar.—ns. Men′dicancy Mendic′ity the state of being a mendicant or beggar: the life of a beggar.—Mendicant orders religious bodies who depended on begging for their support.
乔安娜录入
娱乐性解释:
For a woman to dream of mendicants, she will meet with disagreeable interferences in her plans for betterment and enjoyment.
手打:梅尔瓦
例句:
- In that country the preachers are not like our mendicant orders of friars--they have two or three suits of clothing, and they wash sometimes. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Mrs Wilfer's first visit to the Mendicant's bride at the new abode of Mendicancy, was a grand event. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Before Mrs Wilfer could wave her gloves, the Mendicant's bride in her merriest affectionate manner went on again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Mendicant priests do not prowl among them with baskets begging for the church and eating up their substance. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- I dared to put off the mendicant--to resume my natural manner and character. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- And I may feel well assured that your daughter Bella,' again turning to her husband, 'does not exalt her family by becoming a Mendicant's bride. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The mendicant orders derive their whole subsistence from such oblations. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Would you object to my pointing out, my dear, that Mr John Rokesmith is not (so far as I am acquainted with him), strictly speaking, a Mendicant. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I may feel--nay, know--that in uniting herself to Mr Rokesmith she has united herself to one who is, in spite of shallow sophistry, a Mendicant. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The mendicant orders are like those teachers whose subsistence depends altogether upon their industry. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Possibly there were a few mendicants, and, in some restricted regions, religious pilgrims. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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