mendicant

/mˈɛndɪkənt/

[noun] [adjective]

Mendicant

[NOUN]

a person who begs other people for food and money

synonyms : beggar

*** a member of a religious order (such as the Franciscans) combining monastic life and outside religious activity and originally owning neither personal nor community property

synonyms : friar

mendicant

[ADJECTIVE]

practicing beggary

Examples

1. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen, but society has chosen for us.

2. There’s no way a bunch of mendicant monks will be able to front the copay.

3. Our reading is mendicant and sycophantic.

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