MENDICANT
\mˈɛndɪkənt], \mˈɛndɪkənt], \m_ˈɛ_n_d_ɪ_k_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of MENDICANT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a pauper who lives by begging
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practicing beggary; "mendicant friars"
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a male member of a religious order that originally relied soley on alms
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars.
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A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.
By Oddity Software
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Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars.
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A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Poor to beggary: practicing beggary.
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One who is in extreme want, a beggar: one of the begging fraternity of the R. Cath. Church.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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