Definitions for mendicant

mendicant men·di·cant

Spelling: [men-di-kuh nt]
IPA: /ˈmɛn dɪ kənt/

Mendicant is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 450 anagrams from letters in mendicant (acdeimnnt).

Definitions for mendicant

noun

  1. a person who lives by begging; beggar.
  2. a member of any of several orders of friars that originally forbade ownership of property, subsisting mostly on alms.

adjective

  1. begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
  2. pertaining to or characteristic of a beggar.

Origin of mendicant

1425-75; late Middle English Latin mendīcant- (stem of mendīcāns), present participle of mendīcāre to beg, equivalent to mendīc(us) beggarly, needy + -ant- -ant

Examples for mendicant

You may be certain there was a mendicant priest in attendance on his godship.

The strength of the mendicant orders was in their popularity.

In a way of speaking, this mendicant of Coney Island was perhaps of this class.

In passing the coins their eyes met, and the mendicant started.

It would be a disgrace on my house to have him become a mendicant.

As she came closer to him, the mendicant acted very strangely.

Oh, I'd forgive him all, and e'en his flight, Had only he not turned a mendicant.

The mendicant orders furnished the 218army of papal absolutism.

Other mendicant orders prove the dominant ideas of the time.

The order of scholars has ceased to be mendicant, vagabond, and eremite.

Word Value for mendicant
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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