Mendicant
['mendɪk(ə)nt] or ['mɛndɪkənt]
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Beggar, pauper, starveling, poor or indigent person.
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Definition
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.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
For a woman to dream of mendicants, she will meet with disagreeable interferences in her plans for betterment and enjoyment.
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Examples
- 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. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mrs Wilfer's first visit to the Mendicant's bride at the new abode of Mendicancy, was a grand event. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Before Mrs Wilfer could wave her gloves, the Mendicant's bride in her merriest affectionate manner went on again. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mendicant priests do not prowl among them with baskets begging for the church and eating up their substance. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I dared to put off the mendicant--to resume my natural manner and character. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- 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. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The mendicant orders derive their whole subsistence from such oblations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- 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. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- 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. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The mendicant orders are like those teachers whose subsistence depends altogether upon their industry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Possibly there were a few mendicants, and, in some restricted regions, religious pilgrims. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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