mendicant in English

adjective
1
given to begging.
Possibly it was sheer vanity and love of easily-won applause that drove him to act out the role of mendicant campus guru.
noun
1
a beggar.
I thought of Dorothy Wordsworth who coined the phrase, ‘the rant and cant of the staled beggar’, as she complained of the mendicants she encountered in England's beautiful Lake District.

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1. Then the mendicant did it.

2. Has he a name, this mendicant?

3. He seemed not an ordinary mendicant. Sentencedict.com

4. He belongs to a mendicant order, Your Eminence.

5. This dear little naked mendicant pretends to be utterly helpless.

6. A person doing such is called a beggar, panhandler, or mendicant.

7. Bhikku definition is - a Buddhist monk or religious mendicant.

8. A member of a usually mendicant Roman Catholic order.

9. 4 words related to Augustinian: Augustinian order, friar, mendicant, Austin Friar

10. We are not a mendicant seeking alms at the European door.

11. It was found impaled in the eye of a mendicant friar.

12. Almost all come from monastic or mendicant milieux, and are passages in Annals

13. Beseeching definition: begging synonyms: precative, importunate, precatory, supplicant, supplicatory, petitionary, pleading, mendicant, adjuratory, suppliant

14. In Mainz, unusually, the Beguines did not have close ties to the mendicant orders

15. Yes, yes, I know you, modest mendicant , you ask for all that one has.

16. A fifth order, the Servites, founded in 12 was acknowledged as mendicant order in 14

17. A hindu ascetic or religious mendicant, especially one who performs feats of magic or endurance.

18. Synonyms for Beggar include tramp, mendicant, bum, derelict, hobo, scrounger, vagabond, down-and-out, pauper and vagrant

19. They saw him slouch forward after breakfast, and, like a mendicant, with outstretched, a sailor.

20. 30 He attacked intramural burial, the Mendicant Orders, and bullfights - all characteristic policies of enlightened statesmen.

21. They saw him slouch forward after breakfast , and, a mendicant, with outstretched palm, accost a sailor.

22. The US , being a mendicant borrower , cannot be talking back harshly to its bankers in Beijing .

23. The state of being a beggar or mendicant Familiarity information: Beggary used as a noun is rare.

24. 18 They saw him slouch forward after breakfast , and, a mendicant, with outstretched palm, accost a sailor.

25. Carmelite definition: a member of an order of mendicant friars founded about 1154; White Friar Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

26. The rich man who deludes himself into behaving like a mendicant may conserve his fortune although he will not be very happy.

27. We Augustinians, inspired by the religious insight and teaching of Saint Augustine, and established as a Mendicant Order in the 13th Century

28. Bhikku, (Pāli), feminine Bhikkunī, Sanskrit bhikṣu, or (feminine) bhikṣuṇī, in Buddhism, one who has renounced worldly life and joined the mendicant and contemplative community

29. What does Carmelite mean? A monk or mendicant friar belonging to the Roman Catholic order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, founded in 1155

30. It is pronounced (roughly) bi-KOO. Bhikkhu means something like "mendicant." Although the historical Buddha did have lay disciples, early Buddhism was primarily monastic.

31. In the 13th century mendicant orders—the Franciscans and the Dominicans—who swore vows of poverty and earned their living by begging, were approved by the papacy.

32. Carmelite, one of the four great mendicant orders (those orders whose corporate as well as personal poverty made it necessary for them to beg for alms) of the …

33. A person doing such is called a Beggar, panhandler, or mendicant. Beggars may be found in public places such as transport routes, urban parks, and near busy markets.

34. Alternative etymology derives Middle English beggere, Beggare, beggar from Old French begart, originally a member of the Beghards, a lay brotherhood of mendicants in the Low Countries, from Middle Dutch beggaert (“mendicant”), with pejorative suffix (see -ard

35. Random information on the term “Cadges”: The Buddha (also known as Siddhattha Gotama or Siddhārtha Gautama) [note 3] was a philosopher, mendicant, meditator, spiritual teacher, and religious leader who lived in ancient India (c

36. In 1287, the original way of life of the order was changed to conform to that of the mendicant orders on the initiative of St. Simon Stock and at the command of Pope Innocent IV.

37. Alternative etymology derives Middle English beggere, Beggare, beggar from Old French begart, originally a member of the Beghards, a lay brotherhood of mendicants in the Low Countries, from Middle Dutch beggaert (“mendicant”), with pejorative suffix (see -ard : 4

38. Beseeching: 1 adj begging Synonyms: imploring , pleading adjuratory earnestly or solemnly entreating importunate expressing earnest entreaty mendicant practicing beggary petitionary of the nature of or expressing a petition precative , precatory expressing entreaty or supplication suppliant , supplicant , supplicatory humbly entreating

39. Friar mumper beggar indigent mendicant needy penniless poor fakir faqir faquir fakirs faqirs moneyless broke fruitless pauper have not impecunious insolvent necessitous beggar ticks beggarman beggarweed begrimed beggardom beggardoms beggared beggaring beggarmen beggars beghard beghards begird begirded Begirding begirds begirt begorrah begorrahs

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41. Last seen on: Universal Crossword – Mar 4 2020 Random information on the term “Cadges”: The Buddha (also known as Siddhattha Gotama or Siddhārtha Gautama)[note 3] was a philosopher, mendicant, meditator, spiritual teacher, and religious leader who lived in ancient India (c

42. The desire for alternative forms of living generated essentially three practices of the Beguines, the withdrawal into the hermitage as an anchoress, the collective practice of living together without the rule of an order, and finally the nomadic practice of the mendicant wandering preacher.

43. Apostolic age; Apostolic church (the church of any of the Apostolic sees; the Christian church in general during the Apostolic age) Apostolic father (any of various early Christian theologians or leading figures traditionally believed to have known the apostles) Apostolic poverty (a 13th century doctrine professed by the mendicant orders)

44. Augustinians, members of religious orders following the Rule of St Augustine; Augustinianism, the teachings of Augustine of Hippo and his intellectual heirs; Someone who follows Augustine of Hippo; Canons Regular of Saint Augustine also called "Augustinian Canons" or "Austin Canons"; Order of Saint Augustine, a mendicant order, also called "Augustinian Friars" or

45. From Old French begart, originally a member of the Beghards, a lay brotherhood of mendicants in the Low Countries, from Middle Dutch beggaert "mendicant," with pejorative suffix; the order is said to be named after the Liege priest Lambert le Bègue (French for "Lambert the Stammerer"); others claim it's from Middle English beggere or Beggare, from

46. From Old French begart, originally a member of the Beghards, a lay brotherhood of mendicants in the Low Countries, from Middle Dutch beggaert "mendicant," with pejorative suffix; the order is said to be named after the Liege priest Lambert le Bègue (French for "Lambert the Stammerer"); others claim it's from Middle English beggere or Beggare, from