Definition of Mendicancies

1. mendicancy [n] - See also: mendicancy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mendicancies

mended
mendelevium
mendeleviums
mendelian
mendelian character
mendelian genetics
mendelian ratio
mendelian trait
mendelism
mendelize
mendelizing
mender
menderies
menders
mendery
mendicancies (current term)
mendicancy
mendicancy squad
mendicant
mendicant order
mendicants
mendicate
mendicated
mendicates
mendicating
mendication
mendicities
mendicity
mendigo
mendigos

Literary usage of Mendicancies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1880)
"... lazy, and ceremonious,'' soon fell into methods like those which fell upon Christianity, brotherhoods, sodalities, mendicancies ; in vestments, ..."

2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1880)
"... brotherhoods, sodalities, mendicancies ; in vestments, the dal- matica, arch and cope, the surplice and mitre ; the cross, censers, benedictions with ..."

3. Life of Charles Bradlaugh, M.P. by Charles R. Mackay (1888)
"Let us analyse his sweet mendicancies by scraping off the hypocritical veneer, and we shall find that the language of Charles Bradlaugh is as false as it is ..."

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