Depending on alms for a living. / Of or pertaining to a beggar. / Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living.

A pauper who lives by begging. / A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a living.

plural of mendicant

The act or practice of begging; beggary.

(transitive, intransitive) To beg.

The act or state of being a mendicant

the state of being a beggar; mendicancy or beggary

present participle of mendicate

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mendicate

simple past tense and past participle of mendicate