Mendicant is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MENDICANT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a beggar; a friar who depends on alms
• a beggar.
• a member of a mendicant order.
• A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.
• a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms
• a pauper who lives by begging
• beggar
ADJECTIVE:
• given to begging.
• of or denoting one of the religious orders who originally relied solely on alms
• Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars.
• begging

Words related to MENDICANT

begging12 mendicancy20 mendicants15 mendicity17

Words that contain MENDICANT

mendicants15

How to use MENDICANT in a sentence

• Before these, what a base mendicant is Memory with his leathern badge! But this genial heat is latent in all constitutions, and is disengaged only by the friction of society.
• Wilson desired her companions to lead the way to the cottage where the family of the mendicant gardener had been lodged, and thither they soon arrived.
• Whenever a mendicant Brahman came to this house, it was the custom of all the ladies to give him alms and then prostrate themselves in front of him.
• He was understood to be able to maintain a son a student in the theological classics of the University, at the gate of which the father was a mendicant.
• The old mendicant was grateful for this attention to his son, and one day, as the friendly student passed, he stooped forward more than usual, as if to intercept his passage.
• In this the mendicant orders were most efficient aids.
• In not one out of a thousand instances do the gentry contribute to the mendicant poor.
• He never could reconcile himself to the habits of a mendicant.
• Yet even the decree of a council could not stay the growth of new mendicant types.
• They were compelled to listen to long sermons from mendicant friars, and their obstinacy in adhering to their own creed was denounced as a deliberate offence against the light.
• Winchelsea on his return strove to show that a secular archbishop could be as austere in life, and as zealous for the rights of Holy Church, as his mendicant predecessors.
• Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion, we have not chosen, but society has chosen for us.
• In Europe they were compelled to live in common and mitigate their rule, and they became known as one of the mendicant orders.
• Next day he gave his raiment to a beggar, and assumed the garb of a mendicant pilgrim.
• His first assault was upon the Mendicant Friars, whom he held up, as did his contemporary, Chaucer, to the scorn of the world.
• But the humble functionary or wretched mendicant would rather die than sit at table with the viceroy of India.
• The grumbling mendicant at the door may really be an evil spirit bent on mischief.
• Stuart Lewis, the mendicant bard, was the eldest son of an innkeeper at Ecclefechan in Annandale, where he was born about the year 1756.
• Mendicant monks of those days were for the most part irregular in faith and in morals.
• The peasant soldiers of Bohemia and the peasant Maid of France bearing her sword amidst mendicant monks had much in common.
• The reader cannot expect that we should swell this volume by a minute relation of all the incidents which happened to her, while she continued a poetical mendicant.
• Nevertheless, it so chanced that some time ago this person was proceeding along the further Stone Path when an aged female mendicant, seated by the wayside, besought his charity.
• The marshal then entered the Rue Saint Honore, but there he was opposed by the barricades of the mendicant of Saint Eustache.
• At the hint from the mendicant his master made him a sign to retire, and he was obliged to obey.
• Bazin was stupefied at the sight of the gold, and forgot that he came to announce d’Artagnan, who, curious to know who the mendicant could be, came to Aramis on leaving Athos.
• The Church derived great influence from the institution of mendicant orders, especially those of St.
• In the same play he may wear now the robes of a nobleman, and now the rags of a mendicant.
• The very principles upon which these mendicant orders were established seem to be elements of evil.

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