Definitions for mendicant

Overview of noun mendicant

The noun mendicant has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. friar, mendicant

(a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms)

2. beggar, mendicant

(a pauper who lives by begging)

Overview of adj mendicant

The adj mendicant has 1 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. mendicant

(practicing beggary; "mendicant friars")