mendicant|mendicants in English

noun

['men·di·cant || 'mendɪkənt]

one who is poor; beggar; cleric who lives by charity

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1. 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

2. 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

3. Then the mendicant did it.

4. Has he a name, this mendicant?

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

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

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

8. Jain Ascetics or mendicants beg for food from devout lay followers and wander the land

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

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

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

12. 4 words related to Augustinian: Augustinian order, friar, mendicant, Austin Friar

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. 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

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

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

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

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

24. 30 He attacked intramural burial, the Mendicant Orders, and bullfights - all characteristic policies of enlightened statesmen.

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