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Definition of Mendicants
1. mendicant [n] - See also: mendicant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mendicants
Literary usage of Mendicants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1922)
"The aggressions of the mendicants had raised a deep and widespread hostility
against them in all ranks of the clergy, who recognized not only that their ..."
2. A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms by Charles Buck (1831)
"The people were unwilling to receive the sacraments from any other hands than
those of the mendicants, to whose churches they crowded to perform their ..."
3. A Theological Dictionary, Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms: A by Charles Buck (1829)
"mendicants, or BEGGING FRIARS, several orders of religious in popish countries,
who, having no settled revenues, are supported by the charitable ..."
4. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"I mean, these mendicants found their matches in the Secular Priests, effectually
humbling their pride herein. For it was beheld as a most pestiferous ..."
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