1. Practising beggary
   "mendicant friars"

1. A male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms
   - friar 
2. A pauper who lives by begging
   - beggar

Derived forms: mendicants

See also: beseeching, imploring, mendicancy, pleading

Type of: pauper, religious

Encyclopedia: Mendicant

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