Word Meanings - MENDINANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mendicant or begging friar. Chaucer.

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• 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,
• 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.
• BEGGABLE
  Capable of being begged.
• 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.
• BEGGESTERE
  A beggar. Chaucer.
• BEGGARLINESS
  The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.
• FRIARLY
  Like a friar; inexperienced. Bacon.
• FRIAR
  A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. Augustines. Dominicans or Black Friars. White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.
• BEGGARISM
  Beggary.
• BEGGARHOOD
  The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars.
• FRIARY
  Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent. Camden.
• 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 .
• ABEGGE
  See CHAUCER
• CURTAL FRIAR
  A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery. Sir W. Scott.
• BLACK FRIAR
  A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
• DISFRIAR
  To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar. Many did quickly unnun and disfriar themselves. Fuller.
• COUPLE-BEGGAR
  One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other. Swift.
• WHITE FRIAR
  A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.