Mendicant

Word MENDICANT
Character 9
Hyphenation men di cant
Pronunciations /ˈmɛn.dɪ.kənt/

Definitions and meanings of "Mendicant"

What do we mean by mendicant?

Depending on alms for a living; practicing begging. adjective

Of or relating to religious orders whose members are forbidden to own property individually or in common and must work or beg for their livings. adjective

A beggar. noun

A member of a mendicant order. noun

Begging; reduced to a condition of beggary

Practising beggary; living by alms or doles: as, a mendicant friar. See friar.

A beggar; one who lives by asking alms; especially, a member of a begging order or fraternity; a begging friar. noun

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

Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms. adjective

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. adjective

Depending on alms for a living. adjective

Of or pertaining to a beggar. adjective

Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living. adjective

A pauper who lives by begging. noun

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

Practicing beggary adjective

A pauper who lives by begging noun

A male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms noun

A pauper who lives by begging.

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

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The word "mendicant" in example sentences

Historically, orders of friars could not own property, and individual friars were beggars hence the term mendicant, although this was changed insofar as the orders were concerned by the Council of Trent. ❋ William Safire (2003)

What I did not know until tonight, whilst reading Downloading Midnight by William Browning Spencer (a so-far excellent cyberpunk novelette) was that mendicant is a real word and not a made-up construct. ❋ Unknown (2004)

That person would merely be known as a mendicant monk or bhikshu. ❋ Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche I (1982)

One is not to be called a mendicant for his having only renounced his possessions, or for his having only adopted a life of dependence on eleemosynary charity. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

This was a very serious calamity to the Dominicans, for as they, like the Franciscans, belonged to what were known as the mendicant orders, and depended for their daily bread upon what they could beg, they were reduced to extremity. ❋ Alice J. Knight (N/A)

jesse smith - a mendicant is a beggar. the buddhist may be a special case in that he does it silently and has a spiffy name for goodwill, but he is doing the same thing. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

Just to be clear, the link for the word "mendicant" seem to equate it with "begging". ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

Many shopkeepers seem to regard the customer as a kind of mendicant and to feel that they are conferring a favour on him by selling him anything. ❋ Unknown (1944)

This kind of mendicant is distinctly rural, and belongs to old times. ❋ Edward Harrison Barker (1885)

I appreciate the idea that love for Yashodhara might have prompted Prince Siddhartha to pursue the life of a religious mendicant in order, eventually, to escape the cycle of rebirth and death, but I would also be interested in pressuring how his departure was understood -- or misunderstood -- by those whom he left. ❋ Ravenna Michalsen (2011)

Meanwhile Klaus Regling, the head of the European Financial Stability Facility, has been playing the role of mendicant monk in Asia, taking a begging bowl around the capitals. ❋ Philip Bowring (2011)

In Assayas's film he appears not as a heroic force, but as the dismal mendicant of the Soviet Union, maintained in hideouts and weaponry by Moscow through its client state East Germany, and by Syria and Libya for whom it is convenient to retain the services of Carlos and his acolytes as a roving expeditionary force for mayhem. ❋ Peter Bradshaw (2010)

The mendicant rucksack-wearer first had to inform the officer of the law that there was no such thing as trespass in Scotland. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It is a mendicant and Moynihan a beggar on its behalf: Job-one is the 1977 billion-dollar bailout of New York City. ❋ By Charles Horner (2010)

They saw him slouch for'ard after breakfast, and, like a mendicant, with outstretched palm, accost a sailor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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