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Mendicant vs Mendicate - What's the difference?

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Mendicant is a related term of mendicate.


As an adjective mendicant

is depending on alms for a living.

As a noun mendicant

is a pauper who lives by begging.

As a verb mendicate is

(ambitransitive) to beg.

mendicant

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Depending on alms for a living.
  • Of or pertaining to a beggar.
  • Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pauper who lives by begging.
  • A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a living.
  • mendicate

    English

    Verb

    (mendicat)
  • (ambitransitive) To beg.
  • (Johnson)