mendicants
1mendicants — men·di·cant || mendɪkÉ™nt n. one who is poor; beggar; cleric who lives by charity adj. of the poor; of a beggar; of or pertaining to one who lives on alms …
2Mendicants — Members of religious orders which are forbidden to own property and work or beg for their livings …
3Mendicants — 1) Beggars; the term referred to members of religious orders who were forbidden to own personal or community property and were required to live on charity; they sometimes sought their income by begging; mendicant is another term for such friars… …
4Stanford Mendicants — Infobox musical artist Name = The Stanford Mendicants Img capt = Landscape = Background = group or band Origin = Stanford, California, USA Instruments = Genre = A Cappella Years active = 1963 mdash;present Label = Associated acts = URL =… …
5Mendicant Friars — • Members of those religious orders which, originally, by vow of poverty renounced all proprietorship not only individually but also (and in this differing from the monks) in common, relying for support on their own work and on the charity of the …
6South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… …
7Friar — • A member of one of the mendicant orders Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Friar Friar † …
8Order of Friars Minor — Order of Friars Minor † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Order of Friars Minor (Also known as FRANCISCANS.) This subject may be conveniently considered under the following heads: I. General History of the Order; A. First Period (1209… …
9BEGGING AND BEGGARS — Although the Bible is concerned with the poor and the needy, there is hardly a reference to begging or to beggars, and there is, in fact, no biblical Hebrew word for it. The needs of the poor were provided by the laws of leket, shikhḥah , and pe… …
10Shankaracharya Order — (est. seventh century C.E.) The Shankaracharya Order is an order of renun ciants said to have been founded by the great seventh century VEDANTA philosopher SHANKARA (also known as Shankaracharya). It is formally known as the Dashanami (10… …
