Mendicant Definition

mĕndĭ-kənt
mendicants
adjective
Asking for alms; begging.
Webster's New World
Of or characteristic of a beggar.
Webster's New World
Designating or of any of various religious orders whose members originally held no personal or community property, living mostly on alms.
Webster's New World
noun
mendicants
A beggar; person who begs for alms.
Webster's New World
A mendicant friar.
Webster's New World

A pauper who lives by begging.

Wiktionary

A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a living.

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Other Word Forms of Mendicant

Noun

Singular:
mendicant
Plural:
mendicants

Origin of Mendicant

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin mendīcāns mendīcant- present participle of mendīcāre to beg from mendīcus needy, beggar from mendum physical defect

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin mendÄ«cāns, present participle of mendÄ«cō (“beg"). Compare French mendiant.

    From Wiktionary

Mendicant Sentence Examples

  • The mendicant monks stirred up the populace to acts of fanatical enmity.

  • The form of government was borrowed largely from those prevailing in the mendicant orders.

  • Their author Milaraspa (unless the work should be attributed to his disciples), often called Mila, was a Buddhist ascetic of the I ith century, who, during the intervals of meditation travelled through the southern part of middle Tibet as a mendicant friar, instructing the people by his improvisations in poetry and song, proselytizing, refuting and converting heretics, and working manifold miracles.

  • At the beginning of the 13th century arose the series of great Mendicant orders.

  • His pontificate was signalized by efforts to unite the Greek and Latin churches, by the establishment of the Inquisition in France, by favours shown to the mendicant orders, and by an attempt to organize a crusade against the Tatars.

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