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