Meaning of MENDICANT
| Pronunciation: | | 'mendukunt
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- [n] a pauper who lives by begging
- [n] a male religious of an order of mendicant preachers of the gospel
- [adj] practicing beggary; "mendicant friars"
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| | Synonyms: | | beggar, beseeching, friar |
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| | See Also: | | beggarman, beggarwoman, Black Friar, Blackfriar, cadger, Carmelite, Dominican, Franciscan, Gray Friar, Lazarus, moocher, panhandler, pauper, poor man, religious, scrounger, White Friar | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Men"di*cant\, a. [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\, n.
A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging;
specifically, a begging friar.
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| | Definition: | | Seeing mendicants in your dream means interruptions in your plans. |
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| | Related Terms: | | abbacomes, abbot, abstainer, abstinent, Albigensian, anchorite, anchoritic, ascetic, austere, beadsman, beggar, beggared, beggarly, begging, bereaved, bereft, bhikshu, brother, bum, bummer, cadger, cadging, caloyer, Catharist, celibate, cenobite, conventual, conventual prior, coupon clippers, deprived, dervish, disadvantaged, drone, eremitic, fakir, flagellant, fleeced, Franciscan, freeloader, friar, ghettoized, grand prior, hermit, hieromonach, hobo, idle rich, impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, lay abbot, lay brother, leisure class, loafer, lounge lizard, lumpen proletariat, mendicant friar, mendicant order, monastic, monk, moocher, mooching, necessitous, needy, nonworker, on relief, out at elbows, palmer, panhandler, parasite, pauperized, petitionary, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, poverty-stricken, prayerful, precative, prior, puritan, puritanical, religieux, religious, rentiers, rigoristic, Sabbatarian, sannyasi, schnorrer, scrounger, scrounging, self-denying, spiv, sponger, starveling, stripped, stylite, suppliant, supplicant, supplicating, supplicatory, the unemployable, the unemployed, tramp, Trappist, underprivileged, Waldensian, wedded to poverty, yogi, yogin |
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