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mendicant
[ men-di-kuhnt ]
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.
mendicant
/ m蓻n藞d瑟s瑟t瑟; 藞m蓻nd瑟k蓹nt /
adjective
- begging
- (of a member of a religious order) dependent on alms for sustenance
mendicant friars
- characteristic of a beggar
noun
- a mendicant friar
- a less common word for beggar
Derived Forms
- 藞尘别苍诲颈肠补苍肠测, noun
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 苍辞苍路尘别苍顎僤颈路肠补苍迟 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of mendicant1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of mendicant1
Example Sentences
Joining the Order of Saint Augustine, a mendicant order of the Catholic Church, Mendel was able to spend his life as a monk and therefore not have to worry about his livelihood.
The friend began to hand a few coins to the mendicant, but the revolutionary stopped him, exclaiming: 鈥淒on鈥檛 delay the revolution!鈥
Meanwhile, as Putin's military flattens cities like Kharkiv and Mariupol, making Russia an outlaw state, a mendicant Moscow is likely to become a cut-rate source of much-needed Chinese fuel and food imports.
Clare doesn鈥檛 understand why this son of a silk merchant is wandering around like a nutty mendicant, but she recognizes what they have in common and suspects he has much to teach her.
I dared to put off the mendicant鈥攖o resume my natural manner and character.
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