mendicant

[ men-di-kuhnt ]

/ ˈmɛn dɪ kənt /

SEE SYNONYMS FOR mendicant ON THESAURUS.COM

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.

Origin of mendicant

1425–75; late Middle English <Latin mendīcant- (stem of mendīcāns), present participle of mendīcāre to beg, equivalent to mendīc(us) beggarly, needy + -ant--ant

OTHER WORDS FROM mendicant

non·men·di·cant, adjective

Words nearby mendicant

mender, Menderes, Mendes, Mendès-France, mendicancy, mendicant, mendicity, mending, Mendips, Mendocino, mend one's fences

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Example sentences from the Web for mendicant

They were regarded as belonging to the ranks of the mendicant friars and not to the monastic Order.
English Monastic Life|Abbot Gasquet
Other mendicant orders prove the dominant ideas of the time.
Folkways|William Graham Sumner
The attempt of Durand of Huesca to create a mendicant order has not yet been studied with sufficient minuteness.
Life of St. Francis of Assisi|Paul Sabatier
He fell into the blindness of the miser, who cheers himself with hoarded gold, but lives like a mendicant.
Children of the Soil|Henryk Sienkiewicz

Wealth cannot be earned by leading a mendicant life, nor by a life of feebleness.
Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Bk. 3 Pt. 1|Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

British Dictionary definitions for mendicant

mendicant

/ (ˈmɛndɪkənt) /

adjective

begging

(of a member of a religious order) dependent on alms for sustenancemendicant friars

characteristic of a beggar

noun

a mendicant friar

a less common word for beggar

Derived forms of mendicant

mendicancy or mendicity (mɛnˈdɪsɪtɪ), noun

Word Origin for mendicant

C16: from Latin mendīcāre to beg, from mendīcus beggar, from mendus flaw

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

单词	mendicant
释义	mendicant [ men-di-kuhnt ] / ˈmɛn dɪ kənt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR mendicant ON THESAURUS.COM 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. Origin of mendicant 1425–75; late Middle English <Latin mendīcant- (stem of mendīcāns), present participle of mendīcāre to beg, equivalent to mendīc(us) beggarly, needy + -ant--ant OTHER WORDS FROM mendicant non·men·di·cant, adjective Words nearby mendicant mender, Menderes, Mendes, Mendès-France, mendicancy, mendicant, mendicity, mending, Mendips, Mendocino, mend one's fences Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for mendicant They were regarded as belonging to the ranks of the mendicant friars and not to the monastic Order. English Monastic Life\|Abbot Gasquet Other mendicant orders prove the dominant ideas of the time. Folkways\|William Graham Sumner The attempt of Durand of Huesca to create a mendicant order has not yet been studied with sufficient minuteness. Life of St. Francis of Assisi\|Paul Sabatier He fell into the blindness of the miser, who cheers himself with hoarded gold, but lives like a mendicant. Children of the Soil\|Henryk Sienkiewicz Wealth cannot be earned by leading a mendicant life, nor by a life of feebleness. Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Bk. 3 Pt. 1\|Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa British Dictionary definitions for mendicant mendicant / (ˈmɛndɪkənt) / adjective begging (of a member of a religious order) dependent on alms for sustenancemendicant friars characteristic of a beggar noun a mendicant friar a less common word for beggar Derived forms of mendicant mendicancy or mendicity (mɛnˈdɪsɪtɪ), noun Word Origin for mendicant C16: from Latin mendīcāre to beg, from mendīcus beggar, from mendus flaw Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to mendicant vagabond, panhandler, pauper, monk
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mendicant

adjective

noun

Origin of mendicant

OTHER WORDS FROM mendicant

Words nearby mendicant

Example sentences from the Web for mendicant

British Dictionary definitions for mendicant

adjective

noun

Derived forms of mendicant

Word Origin for mendicant

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