mendicant
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men·di·cant
(mĕn'dĭ-kənt) 
adj.
Depending on alms for a living; practicing begging.
n.
adj.
Depending on alms for a living; practicing begging.
n.
- A beggar.
- A member of an order of friars forbidden to own property in common, who work or beg for their living.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mendīcāns, mendīcant-, present participle of mendīcāre, to beg, from mendīcus, needy, beggar, from mendum, physical defect.]
mendicancy men'di·can·cy or men·dic'i·ty (-dĭs'ĭ-tē) n.Roget's Thesaurus:
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IN BRIEF: A beggar.
It seemed that there was a mendicant on every corner during the holidays.
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The term mendicant (from Latin: mendicans, "begging") refers to begging or relying on charitable donations, and is most widely used for religious followers or ascetics who rely exclusively on charity to survive.
In principle, mendicant orders or followers do not own property, either individually or collectively, and have taken a vow of poverty, in order that all their time and energy could be expended on practising or preaching their religion or way of life and serving the poor.
Many religious orders adhere to a mendicant way of life, including the Catholic mendicant orders, Hindu ascetics, some dervishes of Sufi 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 Christianity until the High Middle Ages. The Way of a Pilgrim depicts the life of an Eastern Christian mendicant.
Books
- Women of the Streets, Early Franciscan Women and Their Mendicant Vocation, by Darleen Pryds, Franciscan Institute Publications, 2010. ISBN 978-1-57659-206-9, ISBN 1-57659-206-5
See also
- Mendicant orders
- Itinerant Jain mendicants in India in Jainism
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Mendicant
Dansk (Danish)
adj. - tiggende, tigger-
n. - tigger, tiggermunk
Nederlands (Dutch)
bedelaar, (bedel)monnik, bedelend
Français (French)
adj. - mendiant (sout)
n. - mendiant
Deutsch (German)
n. - Bettler, Bettelmönch
adj. - bettelnd
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - επαίτης, ζητιάνος
Português (Portuguese)
n. - mendigo (m)
Русский (Russian)
нищий, монах нищенствующего ордена
Español (Spanish)
adj. - mendicante, mendigo
n. - mendicante, mendigo
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - tiggare, tiggarmunk
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
行乞的, 化缘的, 托钵的, 乞丐, 托钵僧, 乞讨
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 行乞的, 化緣的, 托缽的
n. - 乞丐, 托缽僧, 乞討
한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 탁발의, 나쁜
n. - 동냥하는 사람
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 施しで暮らす, 托鉢をする, 物乞いをする
n. - こじき, 托鉢僧, 物乞い
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) المتسول, الشحاذ, الراهب المستجدي
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - מקבץ נדבות, חי מנדבות (נזיר)
n. - קבצן, נזיר מקבץ נדבות
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