- mendicant⇄adj. begging.
Ex. Mendicant friars ask alms for charity. And with that dejected air and mendicant voice (Samuel Richardson). - mendicant⇄mendicant, adjective, noun.
- mendicant⇄noun 1. a beggar.
Ex. We were surrounded by mendicants asking for money.
2. a member of a mendicant religious order.