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Webster 1913 Edition


Mendicant

Men′di-cant

,
Adj.
[L.
mendicans
,
-antis
, p. pr. of
mendicare
to beg, fr.
mendicus
beggar, indigent.]
Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms;
as,
mendicant
friars
.
Mendicant orders
(R. C. Ch.)
,
certain monastic orders which are forbidden to acquire landed property and are required to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Carmelites, and the Augustinians.

Men′di-cant

,
Noun.
A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.

Webster 1828 Edition


Mendicant

MEND'ICANT

,
Adj.
[L. mendicans, from mendico, to beg; allied to L.mando, to command, demand.]
1.
Begging; poor to a state of beggary; as reduced to a mendicant state.
2.
Practicing beggary; as a mendicant friar.

MEND'ICANT

,
Noun.
A beggar; one that makes it his business to beg alms; one of the begging fraternity of the Romish church.

Definition 2024


mendicant

mendicant

English

Adjective

mendicant (not comparable)

  1. Depending on alms for a living.
  2. Of or pertaining to a beggar.
  3. Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living.

Translations

Noun

mendicant (plural mendicants)

  1. A pauper who lives by begging.
  2. A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a living.

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Latin

Verb

mendīcant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of mendīcō