Mendicant synonyms

mĕn'dĭ-kənt

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beggar (related)
A person who is very poor; pauper
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moocher
A person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others, especially if they are making little effort to help themselves. Usually used as a pejorative.
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pauper
Any person who is extremely poor
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cadger
(Archaic) A hawker or peddler.
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bummer
A beggar.
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panhandler
A bum.
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vagabond
An idle, disreputable, or shiftless person
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tramp (related)
The sound produced by heavy walking or marching.
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beggar.--a. begging
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friar
A member of a usually mendicant Roman Catholic order.
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monk
A member of a male religious order living in a monastery or hermitage observing a common rule, under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
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almsman
(Now Rare) A person, esp. a man, supported by alms
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almswoman
(Archaic) A woman who depends on the receipt of alms; a female beggar.
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request (related)
A formal message requesting something.
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pious (related)
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brahmin (related)
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prelate (related)
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Find another word for mendicant. In this page you can discover 17 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for mendicant, like: beggar, moocher, pauper, cadger, bummer, panhandler, vagabond, tramp, beggar.--a. begging, friar and monk.
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Mendicant Sentence Examples

  • The mendicant monks stirred up the populace to acts of fanatical enmity.

  • The form of government was borrowed largely from those prevailing in the mendicant orders.

  • Their author Milaraspa (unless the work should be attributed to his disciples), often called Mila, was a Buddhist ascetic of the I ith century, who, during the intervals of meditation travelled through the southern part of middle Tibet as a mendicant friar, instructing the people by his improvisations in poetry and song, proselytizing, refuting and converting heretics, and working manifold miracles.

  • To counteract it celibacy was finally imposed on the clergy, and the great mendicant orders evolved; while the constant polemic of the Cathar teachers against the cruelty, rapacity and irascibility of the Jewish tribal god led the church to prohibit the circulation of the Old Testament among laymen.

  • His pontificate was signalized by efforts to unite the Greek and Latin churches, by the establishment of the Inquisition in France, by favours shown to the mendicant orders, and by an attempt to organize a crusade against the Tatars.

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