"mendicant" in the noun sense
1. friar, mendicant
a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms
2. beggar, mendicant
a pauper who lives by begging
"mendicant" in the adjective sense
1. mendicant
practicing beggary
"mendicant friars"
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