It seemed that there was a mendicant on every corner during the holidays. From LearnThat.org.
mendicant friars. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
One is not to be called a mendicant for his having only renounced his possessions, or for his having only adopted a life of dependence on eleemosynary charity. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Just to be clear, the link for the word "mendicant" seem to equate it with "begging". From Wordnik.com. [Give It Up: The Best Gift is Nothing at All] Reference
Jesse smith - a mendicant is a beggar. the buddhist may be a special case in that he does it silently and has a spiffy name for goodwill, but he is doing the same thing. From Wordnik.com. [Give It Up: The Best Gift is Nothing at All] Reference
This kind of mendicant is distinctly rural, and belongs to old times. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference
"If you please, ma'am, there's a mendicant at the door.". From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
As she came closer to him, the mendicant acted very strangely. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
In passing the coins their eyes met, and the mendicant started. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
At Sanam Luang he bought a kite from a mendicant kite salesman. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
Cloisters for mendicant crows and granaries pillaged by squirrels. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
A sales mendicant came by with a dozen or more umbrellas in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
On a rug this mendicant had six-inch motorcycles crafted from bamboo. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
Why had Mlle. d 'Armilly been so stricken at the sight of the mendicant?. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
The order of scholars has ceased to be mendicant, vagabond, and eremite. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
Properly, a religious mendicant of any Vishnuite sect should be called a Bairagi. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
The inn in those days was intended chiefly for the refreshment of mendicant friars. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Half of his earnings goes in alms; half into the pockets of his mendicant brethren. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Deo with a sacrifice of pigs, the deity being apparently a deified ascetic or mendicant. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
The rest of his inglorious reign was spent by Baldwin in mendicant tours in western Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The mendicant orders of the Satanis and Dasaris of southern India are branches of this sect. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
In order to prevent his being recognized she caused him to assume the form of an aged mendicant. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
They were permitted not only to enjoy all the rights of the mendicant and secular orders, and to be. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference
Or else, we have representations of those interested visits that mendicant friars paid to the dying. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
One who, being a religious mendicant, forsakes that condition, shall be, until death, the monarch's slave. From Wordnik.com. [Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya] Reference
Compare the mendicant friar in Diderot, who drew him from nature, centuries later; it is the same sort of nature. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
No better instruments could be found for inquisitors than the mendicant orders of monks, particularly the Franciscans and. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference
The peripatetic dealer in small wares, the newsboy, the apple-woman, the bootblack, and the mendicant marshal you the way. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
While, from the mystics of that date, valuable works have been preserved, what has been left us from these mendicant orders?. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference
He had a smile for all; of superiority for the bloated aristocrat; of friendliness for the humble, yet perchance worthy mendicant. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
The Oswals say that their ancestor was the Rajput king of Osnagar in Marwar, who with his followers was converted by a Jain mendicant. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
This clergy was very numerous; in the thirteenth century its ranks were swelled by the arrival of the mendicant friars: Franciscans and. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
He knew nothing about the particular fakir whose tomb he was honouring, but it was sufficient that he had been a mendicant like himself. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
When a mendicant salesman with teeth sparkled them from his tanned face even an impoverished Thai couldn't resist the inclination to buy. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
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