Mendicant Mnemonic
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mendicant
mendicant
/ˈmɛn.dɪ.kənt/
Examples
- The King decided to meet the mendicant.
- The mendicant's devotions were completed.
- A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders.
- He worked as a mendicant preacher to the Sicilians.
- The mendicant preacher stood beside a prayer.
- He practised all the arts of the professional mendicant.
- The mendicant must fall back on legal relief.
- The mendicant took that stone and went his way.
- He also suggests that the mendicant orders are partly to blame.
- Gradually preaching would be revived by the influx of the new mendicant orders.
a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms
noun
a pauper who lives by begging
noun
practicing beggary
adjective
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"Men + Dicant. The man is begging, saying he can't afford bread."
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