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mendicate, v. rare.|ˈmɛndɪkeɪt|
[f. L. mendīcāt-, ppl. stem of mendīcāre: see mendicant.]
1. trans. To beg for, ask for like a beggar.
1618Barnevelt's Apol. D j, I..maruaile, why you should so carefully search, and as it were mendicate these things. 1826Scott Jrnl. I. 288, I have seen..papers distributed in the boxes to mendicate a round of applause. 1865Pall Mall G. 23 Sept. 1/1 A loan must be had on any terms, and is now being almost mendicated.
2. intr. To beg. rare—0.
1623Cockeram, Mendicate, to beg. 1721, etc. in Bailey. 1755in Johnson. Hence in mod. Dicts.
b. quasi-trans. with out of.
1768W. Livingston Let. Bp. Llandaff 19 People..may be mendicated or sermonized out of their money.
Hence ˈmendicated ppl. a.
1641J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 142 To be beholden to this borrowed, yea mendicated and begged dignity. 1819Blackw. Mag. V. 571 The..squalid establishments for mendicated instruction had become loathsome in his eyes. |