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Mendicity

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men·di·cant  (mnd-knt)
adj.
Depending on alms for a living; practicing begging.
n.
1. A beggar.
2. A member of an order of friars forbidden to own property in common, who work or beg for their living.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mendcns, mendcant-, present participle of mendcre, to beg, from mendcus, needy, beggar, from mendum, physical defect.]
mendi·can·cy, men·dici·ty (-ds-t) n.
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Noun1.mendicity - the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy"
mendicancy, beggary
indigence, pauperism, pauperization, penury, need - a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"


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Mendicity on commission stooped in their high shoulders, shambled in their unsteady legs, buttoned and pinned and darned and dragged their clothes, frayed their button-holes, leaked out of their figures in dirty little ends of tape, and issued from their mouths in alcoholic breathings.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
My lord, with forty thousand a year; Sir John, with property in half a dozen counties -- those are the men who never forgive the genteel beggar for swindling them out of a sovereign; those are the men who send for the mendicity officers; those are the men who take care of their money.
No Name by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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