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adj. Depending on alms for a living; practicing begging.

n. A beggar.

n. A member of an order of friars forbidden to own property in common, who work or beg for their living.

adj. Depending on alms for a living.

adj. Of or pertaining to a beggar.

adj. Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living.

n. A pauper who lives by begging.

n. A religious friar forbidden to own personal property who begs for a living.

adj. Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms.

n. A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.

Begging; reduced to a condition of beggary

Practising beggary; living by alms or doles: as, a mendicant friar. See friar.

n. A beggar; one who lives by asking alms; especially, a member of a begging order or fraternity; a begging friar.

adj. practicing beggary

n. a pauper who lives by begging

n. a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms

"Historically, orders of friars could not own property, and individual friars were beggars hence the term mendicant, although this was changed insofar as the orders were concerned by the Council of Trent."

pleading    imploring    beseeching   

mendicant orders   

mendicant order   

begging    beggar    friar   

Augustinian    barefoot    itinerant    barefooted    canting    vagrant    homeless    unfrocked    indigent    sixteenth-century