mendicant : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mendicant	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mendicant adj practicing beggary; "mendicant friars" n a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms Synonym(s): friar, mendicant a pauper who lives by begging Synonym(s): beggar, mendicant
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mendicant \Men"dicant\, a. [L. mendicans, -antis, p. pr. of mendicare to beg, fr. mendicus beggar, indigent.] Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant* friars. {Mendicant orders} (R. C. Ch.), 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mendicant \Men"di*cant\, n. A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.