Mendicant
[n] a pauper who lives by begging
[n] a male religious of an order of mendicant preachers of the gospel
[adj] practicing beggary; "mendicant friars"
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abbacomes, abbot, abstainer, abstinent, Albigensian, anchorite, anchoritic, ascetic, austere, beadsman, beggar, beggared, beggarly, begging, bereaved, bereft, bhikshu, brother, bum, bummer, cadger, cadging, caloyer, Catharist, celibate, cenobite, conventu