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Mendicant - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Mendicant : adj : practicing beggary; "mendicant friars"
(noun)
1: a male member of a religious order that originally relied
soley on alms [syn: friar]
2: a pauper who lives by begging [syn: beggar]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Mendicant : \Men"di*cant\, a. [L. mendicans, -antis, p. pr. of
mendicare to beg, fr. mendicus beggar, indigent.]
Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant
friars.
Mendicant orders (R. C. Ch.), 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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Mendicant : \Men"di*cant\, n.
A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging;
specifically, a begging friar.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Mendicant |
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technomancy: Clojure's funding drive reminds me of the Ruby Mendicant project: http://bit.ly/e7Lkd It's easier if you're single living in a studio tho. |
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mendicant: @tweakt I bind search-history-backward and forward to my up and down keys (I started a tcsh user in freebsd) so I don't use ctrl-r much. |
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tweakt: @Mendicant whoah! Nice find. You just made my world a little brighter. You know Ctrl-R I presume? (incremental history search). |
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