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Synonyms for mendicant

Grammar : Noun
Spell : men-di-kuh nt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɛn dɪ kənt

Définition of mendicant

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Latin mendicantem (nominative mendicans) present participle of mendicare "to beg, ask alms," from mendicus "beggar," originally "cripple" (connection via cripples who must beg), from menda "fault, physical defect" (see mendacious). As an adjective from 1540s. Also in Middle English was mendinant (mid-14c.), from Old French mendinant, present participle of mendiner "to beg," from the same Latin source.
  • noun beggar
Example sentences :
  • In passing the coins their eyes met, and the mendicant started.
  • Extract from : « The False Chevalier » by William Douw Lighthall
  • It would be a disgrace on my house to have him become a mendicant.
  • Extract from : « The Buddha » by Paul Carus
  • Oh, I'd forgive him all, and e'en his flight, Had only he not turned a mendicant.
  • Extract from : « The Buddha » by Paul Carus
  • In a way of speaking, this mendicant of Coney Island was perhaps of this class.
  • Extract from : « From Place to Place » by Irvin S. Cobb
  • The order of scholars has ceased to be mendicant, vagabond, and eremite.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 » by Various
  • The strength of the mendicant orders was in their popularity.
  • Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
  • The mendicant orders furnished the 218army of papal absolutism.
  • Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
  • Other mendicant orders prove the dominant ideas of the time.
  • Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
  • You may be certain there was a mendicant priest in attendance on his godship.
  • Extract from : « In Eastern Seas » by J. J. Smith
  • As she came closer to him, the mendicant acted very strangely.
  • Extract from : « Monte-Cristo's Daughter » by Edmund Flagg

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