Word Meanings - MENDICANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars. Mendicant orders , certain monastic orders which are forbidden to acquire landed property and are required to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the Dominicans,

Additional info about word: MENDICANT

Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars. Mendicant orders , 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MENDICANT)

• Beggar
• Mendicant
• petitioner
• suitor
• suppliant
• applicant

Related words: (words related to MENDICANT)

• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• BEGGAR
  1. One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner. 2. One who makes it his business to ask alms. 3. One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use. 4. One who assumes in argument
• BEGGAR'S TICKS
  The bur marigold and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.
• BEGGAR'S LICE
  The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.
• MENDICANT
  Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars. Mendicant orders , certain monastic orders which are forbidden to acquire landed property and are required to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the Dominicans,
• PETITIONER
  One who presents a petition.
• BEGGARLINESS
  The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.
• SUPPLIANT
  1. Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating. The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud. Dryden. 2. Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. Milton. Syn.
• SUITOR
  1. One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant. She hath been a suitor to me for her brother. Shak. 2. Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover. Sir P. Sidney. One who sues or prosecutes a demand in
• BEGGARISM
  Beggary.
• BEGGARHOOD
  The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars.
• APPLICANT
  One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner. The applicant for a cup of water. Plumtre. The court require the applicant to appear in person. Z. Swift.
• BEGGARY
  1. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty. 2. Beggarly appearance. The freedom and the beggary of the old studio. Thackeray. Syn. -- Indigence; want; penury; mendicancy.
• BULLBEGGAR
  Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort .
• REPETITIONER
  One who repeats.
• COUPLE-BEGGAR
  One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other. Swift.