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View synonyms for mendicant
mendicant
[ men-di-kuhnt ]
adjective
- begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
- pertaining to or characteristic of a beggar.
noun
- a person who lives by begging; beggar.
- a member of any of several orders of friars that originally forbade ownership of property, subsisting mostly on alms.
mendicant
/ mɛnˈdɪsɪtɪ; ˈmɛndɪkənt /
adjective
- begging
- (of a member of a religious order) dependent on alms for sustenance
mendicant friars
- characteristic of a beggar
noun
- a mendicant friar
- a less common word for beggar
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Derived Forms
- ˈmendicancy, noun
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Other Words From
- non·mendi·cant adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mendicant1
1425–75; late Middle English < Latin mendīcant- (stem of mendīcāns ), present participle of mendīcāre to beg, equivalent to mendīc ( us ) beggarly, needy + -ant- -ant
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mendicant1
C16: from Latin mendīcāre to beg, from mendīcus beggar, from mendus flaw
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Example Sentences
He has been on intimate terms with czar and serf, he has met millionaire and mendicant, he has hobnobbed with prince and pauper.
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In a way of speaking, this mendicant of Coney Island was perhaps of this class.
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They probably despised her already; how much more they would despise her in the character of a mendicant!
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I must go there, if I clothe myself in the rags of a mendicant lama and beg my way from one black tent to another.
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In a few days the town of Brussels swarmed with ash-gray garments such as were usually worn by mendicant friars and penitents.
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