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mendicant
noun(men-di-cant)
beggar
mendicant
noun(men-di-cant)
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 : friar
mendicant
adjective(men-di-cant)
practicing beggary : engaged in begging
mendicant
adjective(men-di-cant)
of, relating to, belonging to, or constituting a religious order combining monastic life and outside religious activity and originally owning neither personal nor community property

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