Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MEND'I-CANT
MEND'I-CANT, a. [L. mendicans, from mendico, to beg, Fr. mendier; allied to L. mando, to command, demand.]
- Begging; poor to a state of beggary; as, reduced to a mendicant state.
- Practicing beggary; as, a mendicant friar.
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