英语词汇“mendicant”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

mendicant

/ˈmɛndɪk(ə)nt

adjective

1Given to begging.Possibly it was sheer vanity and love of easily-won applause that drove him to act out the role of mendicant campus guru....

Out on the sidewalk of Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz's main shopping street, the normal carnival of pedestrians, loiterers, court jesters, fools, and mendicant troubadours milled and mingled on a warm spring afternoon.
After all, Francis of Assisi and Dominic Guzman, not Innocent III, energized the mendicant movement that swept Europe in the thirteenth century.

Synonyms

begging, cadging

informal scrounging, sponging

North American informal mooching

1.1Of or denoting one of the religious orders who originally relied solely on alms: a mendicant friar...

This new form was provided by the mendicant orders, the friars - mobile missionaries whose international organization cut clean through diocesan and parochial boundaries.
All over town, Franciscan monks - the order of mendicant friars which is St. Francis' legacy - were praying.
Clerical control seems to have ensured coherent planning of subject-matter and compositions throughout the choir; indeed he finds the cathedral glass remarkably free of lay influence, or of trends favoured by the mendicant orders.

noun

1A beggar.I thought of Dorothy Wordsworth who coined the phrase, ‘the rant and cant of the staled beggar’, as she complained of the mendicants she encountered in England's beautiful Lake District....

Somehow, it reminds one of The Beggars' Opera, in which professional mendicants hire crutches for a day's sponging, clobbering with a wooden limb anyone who gets in the way of them turning a pretty penny.
If there was no man in the house at the time these unwelcome visitors made their calls the female inmates were often greatly frightened, for the mendicants, if they were refused help, were not particular in the choice of their epithets.

Synonyms

beggar, beggarman, beggarwoman, tramp, vagrant, vagabond, cadger

informal scrounger, sponger

North American hobo

North American informal schnorrer, mooch, moocher, bum

rare clochard

1.1A member of a mendicant order.Another group of monasteries grew up around friars who although taking the triple vow of poverty, chastity, and obedience were mendicants who moved about the country using any house of their own order as a base....

Its topics included not only monks but canons, mendicants, and other groups.
Such tunics were deliberately patched and made ragged to indicate their wearers' status as religious mendicants.

Derivatives

mendicancy

/ˈmɛndɪk(ə)nsi

/ noun ...

Pankaj is like those dilettantes one reads about in Somerset Maugham, who fear boredom more than old age, death, poverty or mendicancy.
For the Buddha's monks this meant a life of mendicancy, of poverty but not of self-mortification, of celibacy and of gentle honesty.
True to his vow of mendicancy he had relinquished the long held post of Prime Minister of Vijayanagara, the legendary Hindu kingdom he was instrumental in establishing with Harihara and Bukka in AD 1336.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin mendicant- 'begging', from the verb mendicare, from mendicus 'beggar', from mendum 'fault'.

单词	mendicant
释义	mendicant /ˈmɛndɪk(ə)nt / adjective 1Given to begging.Possibly it was sheer vanity and love of easily-won applause that drove him to act out the role of mendicant campus guru.... Out on the sidewalk of Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz's main shopping street, the normal carnival of pedestrians, loiterers, court jesters, fools, and mendicant troubadours milled and mingled on a warm spring afternoon. After all, Francis of Assisi and Dominic Guzman, not Innocent III, energized the mendicant movement that swept Europe in the thirteenth century. Synonyms begging, cadging informal scrounging, sponging North American informal mooching 1.1Of or denoting one of the religious orders who originally relied solely on alms: a mendicant friar... This new form was provided by the mendicant orders, the friars - mobile missionaries whose international organization cut clean through diocesan and parochial boundaries. All over town, Franciscan monks - the order of mendicant friars which is St. Francis' legacy - were praying. Clerical control seems to have ensured coherent planning of subject-matter and compositions throughout the choir; indeed he finds the cathedral glass remarkably free of lay influence, or of trends favoured by the mendicant orders. noun 1A beggar.I thought of Dorothy Wordsworth who coined the phrase, ‘the rant and cant of the staled beggar’, as she complained of the mendicants she encountered in England's beautiful Lake District.... Somehow, it reminds one of The Beggars' Opera, in which professional mendicants hire crutches for a day's sponging, clobbering with a wooden limb anyone who gets in the way of them turning a pretty penny. If there was no man in the house at the time these unwelcome visitors made their calls the female inmates were often greatly frightened, for the mendicants, if they were refused help, were not particular in the choice of their epithets. Synonyms beggar, beggarman, beggarwoman, tramp, vagrant, vagabond, cadger informal scrounger, sponger North American hobo North American informal schnorrer, mooch, moocher, bum rare clochard 1.1A member of a mendicant order.Another group of monasteries grew up around friars who although taking the triple vow of poverty, chastity, and obedience were mendicants who moved about the country using any house of their own order as a base.... Its topics included not only monks but canons, mendicants, and other groups. Such tunics were deliberately patched and made ragged to indicate their wearers' status as religious mendicants. Derivatives mendicancy /ˈmɛndɪk(ə)nsi / noun ... Pankaj is like those dilettantes one reads about in Somerset Maugham, who fear boredom more than old age, death, poverty or mendicancy. For the Buddha's monks this meant a life of mendicancy, of poverty but not of self-mortification, of celibacy and of gentle honesty. True to his vow of mendicancy he had relinquished the long held post of Prime Minister of Vijayanagara, the legendary Hindu kingdom he was instrumental in establishing with Harihara and Bukka in AD 1336. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin mendicant- 'begging', from the verb mendicare, from mendicus 'beggar', from mendum 'fault'.
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