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Webster 1913 Edition

Mendicant

Men′di-cant

,
Adj.
[L.
mendicans
,
-antis
, p. pr. of
mendicare
to beg, fr.
mendicus
beggar, indigent.]
Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms;
as,
mendicant
friars
.
Mendicant orders
(R. C. Ch.)
,
certain monastic orders which are forbidden to acquire landed property and are required to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Carmelites, and the Augustinians.

Men′di-cant

,
Noun.
A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.

Webster 1828 Edition

Mendicant

MEND'ICANT

,
Adj.
[L. mendicans, from mendico, to beg; allied to L.mando, to command, demand.]
1.
Begging; poor to a state of beggary; as reduced to a mendicant state.
2.
Practicing beggary; as a mendicant friar.

MEND'ICANT

,
Noun.
A beggar; one that makes it his business to beg alms; one of the begging fraternity of the Romish church.

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