亚洲网紅露点

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mendicant

[ men-di-kuhnt ]

adjective

  1. begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
  2. pertaining to or characteristic of a beggar.


noun

  1. a person who lives by begging; beggar.
  2. 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

  1. begging
  2. (of a member of a religious order) dependent on alms for sustenance

    mendicant friars

  3. characteristic of a beggar
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a mendicant friar
  2. a less common word for beggar
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞尘别苍诲颈肠补苍肠测, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 苍辞苍路尘别苍顎僤颈路肠补苍迟 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of mendicant1

1425鈥75; late Middle English < Latin 尘别苍诲墨肠补苍迟- (stem of 尘别苍诲墨肠腻苍蝉 ), present participle of 尘别苍诲墨肠腻谤别 to beg, equivalent to 尘别苍诲墨肠 ( us ) beggarly, needy + -ant- -ant
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of mendicant1

C16: from Latin 尘别苍诲墨肠腻谤别 to beg, from 尘别苍诲墨肠us beggar, from mendus flaw
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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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I dared to put off the mendicant鈥攖o resume my natural manner and character.

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