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men•di•cant



Pronunciation: (men'di-kunt), [key]
—adj.
1. begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
2. pertaining to or characteristic of a beggar.

—n.
1. a person who lives by begging; beggar.
2. a member of any of several orders of friars that originally forbade ownership of property, subsisting mostly on alms.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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