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Definitions of mendicant in various dictionaries:
noun - a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms
noun - a pauper who lives by begging
adj - practicing beggary
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| given to begging. |
| someone, especially a member of a religious group, who lives by asking people they do not know for money |
| A beggar. |
| Given to begging. |
| Depending on alms for a living practicing begging. |
| A member of an order of friars forbidden to own property in common, who work or beg for their living. |
| a pauper who lives by begging |
| a male member of a religious order that originally relied soley on alms |
| practicing beggary |
| Mendicant description |
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A mendicant (from Latin: mendicans, "begging") is one who practices mendicancy (begging) and relies chiefly or exclusively on charitable donations to survive. In principle, mendicant religious orders do not own property, either individually or collectively, and members have taken a vow of poverty, in order that all their time and energy could be expended on practicing or preaching and serving the poor. It is a form of asceticism. * Many religious orders adhere to a mendicant way of life, including the Catholic mendicant orders, Hindu ascetics, some Sufi dervishes of Islam, and the monastic orders of Jainism and Buddhism. In the Catholic Church, followers of Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Dominic became known as mendicants, as they would beg for food while they preached to the villages. * While mendicants are the original type of monks in Buddhism and have a long history in Indian Hinduism and the countries which adapted Indian religious traditions, they didn't become widespread in Chris |
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