Definitions for mendicants

mendicants men·di·cant

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

Mendicants is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 901 anagrams from letters in mendicants (acdeimnnst).

Definitions for mendicants

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.
  3. a person who lives by begging; beggar.
  4. 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.
  3. begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
  4. pertaining to or characteristic of a beggar.

Origin of mendicants

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 mendicants

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.

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.

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

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.

Other mendicant orders prove the dominant ideas of the time.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for mendicants
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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