Mendicant
31mendicant — n. Beggar …
32mendicant — noun See beggar 1) …
33mendicant — adj 1. begging, scrounging, cadging, supplicant, petitionary, on bended knee, on one s hands and knees. n 2. beggar, almsman, beggarman, alms hunter, cadger, Inf. panhandler, Scot. gaberlunzie, Brit. mumper; moocher, scrounger, Inf. sponger, Inf …
34mendicant — men·di·cant …
35mendicant — One who begs for a living …
36mendicant — This word (from the Latin mendicus, meaning beggar ) refers to a member of a religious community who begs for alms …
37mendicant — n. beggar; a. begging. ♦ mendicity, ♦ mendicancy, n …
38mendicant order — noun Any religious order whose members depend on begging or charity …
39MENDICANT ORDER — a religious fraternity, the members of which denude themselves of all private property and live on alms …
40Mendicant orders — term for the friars; the term refers to begging because of their dependence on alms for their support …