mendicant

English - Turkish

Definition of mendicant in English Turkish dictionary

Bilinmeyen varlıklara yalvarmak akıllıca değil. - Begging from unknown entities isn't wise.

Onu yiyecek için yalvarmasını görmek kalbimi kırdı. - It broke my heart to see her begging for food.

{i} dilenme

Adam kapı kapı dilenmeye gitti. - The man went begging from door to door.

Yasaya göre, sokakta dilenmek yasaktır. - By law, begging in the street is forbidden.

English - English

Definition of mendicant in English English dictionary: A beggar; Of or pertaining to a beggar; Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living; Depending on alms for a living; A religious friar forbidden to own personal property who begs for a living; One who begs for a living; {n} a begging friar; {a} begging; a pauper who lives by begging; practicing beggary; "mendicant friars"; {s} of the poor; of a beggar; of or pertaining to one who lives on alms; someone who asks people for money in order to live, usually for religious reasons (present participle of mendicare , from mendicus ); one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar; \MEN-dih-kunt\, noun: 1 A beggar; especially, one who makes a business of begging 2 A member of an order of friars forbidden to acquire landed property and required to be supported by alms; Religious orders that arose in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that took vows of personal and corporate poverty and, depending on charity for survival, preached to the urban populations; {i} one who is poor; beggar; cleric who lives by charity; A beggar; esp; practicing beggary; "mendicant friars; Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars; a male member of a religious order that originally relied soley on alms; sadhu
mendicant order: Any religious order whose members depend on begging or charity
mendicants: plural of mendicant

mendicant

Hyphenation

men·di·cant

() From Latin mendīcāns, present participle of mendīcō (“beg”).

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