Usually means: Beggars relying on others' charity.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. mendicants: Merriam-Webster
  2. mendicants: Collins English Dictionary
  3. mendicants: Vocabulary.com
  4. Mendicants, mendicant's, mendicants: Wordnik
  5. mendicants: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. mendicants: Wiktionary
  7. mendicants: Dictionary.com
  8. Mendicants: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Mendicants: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. Mendicants: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Mendicants: Legal dictionary

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  1. Mendicants: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mendicant)

adjective:  Depending on alms for a living.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to a beggar.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living.
noun:  A pauper who lives by begging.
noun:  A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a living.
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