| 单词 | mendicant |
| 释义 | mendicant /men"di keuhnt/, adj. 1. begging; practicing begging; living on alms. 2. pertaining to or characteristic of a beggar. n. 3. a person who lives by begging; beggar. 4. a member of any of several orders of friars that originally forbade ownership of property, subsisting mostly on alms. [1425-75; late ME < L mendicant- (s. of mendicans), prp. of mendicare to beg, equiv. to mendic(us) beggarly, needy + -ant- -ANT] |
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