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Definition of Mendicancy
1. Noun. The state of being a beggar or mendicant. "They were reduced to mendicancy"
Generic synonyms: Indigence, Need, Pauperism, Pauperization, Penury
2. Noun. A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person).
Generic synonyms: Solicitation
Derivative terms: Beg, Beg, Beg, Mendicant
Definition of Mendicancy
1. n. The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging.
Definition of Mendicancy
1. Noun. The act or state of being a mendicant ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mendicancy
1. [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mendicancy
Literary usage of Mendicancy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tracts and Treatises of John de Wycliffe: With Selections and Translations by John Wycliffe, Robert Vaughan (1845)
"FURTHER SHOWING THAT THE mendicancy OF THE FRIARS IS NOT CONSISTENT WITH SCRIPTURE.
Sis. I see clearly^ from the reasons adduced, and from many others that ..."
2. Burke, Select Works by Edmund Burke (1881)
"Nothing, I am credibly informed, can exceed the shocking and disgusting spectacle
of mendicancy displayed in that capital. Indeed, the votes of the national ..."
3. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke (1864)
"Reception at Court.—Acting the Physician again.—Royal mendicancy. the lett bank
of the ui River. M. WE halted again, but in the evening one of Dr. ..."
4. The Library of American Biography by Jared Sparks (1848)
"CHAPTER V. Measures for suppressing mendicancy in Bavaria. — Establishment of
the Military Workhouse at Munich. THE state of Bavaria, at the time that Rum- ..."
5. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"In later times, mendicancy, which doei not appear to have been contemplated by
Moses, became frequent. I K. vii. 41, " bowls." The word signifies convex ..."
6. A Treatise on State and Federal Control of Persons and Property in the by Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman (1900)
"Police regulation of mendicancy. — Somewhat akin to the evil of vagrancy, and
growing out of it, is common and public mendicancy. The instincts of humanity ..."
7. A Tour Through Italy: Exhibiting a View of Its Scenery, Its Antiquities, and by John Chetwode Eustace (1813)
"The modern Romans are accused of habitual indolence, and a disposition to
mendicancy; a reproach founded upon hasty and partial observation. ..."
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