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Adjective mendicant has 1 sense
  1. mendicant - practicing beggary; "mendicant friars"
    Antonym:     imperative (indirect, via beseeching)
,Noun mendicant has 2 senses
  1. friar, mendicant - a male member of a religious order that originally relied soley on alms
    --1 is a kind of religious
    --1 has particulars:
     Carmelite, White Friar; Dominican, Black Friar, Blackfriar, friar preacher; Franciscan, Gray Friar; Augustinian
  2. beggar, mendicant - a pauper who lives by begging
    --2 is a kind of pauper, poor man
    --2 has particulars:
     beggarman; beggarwoman; Lazarus; moocher, cadger, scrounger; panhandler; sannyasi, sannyasin, sanyasi
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