mendicant (1321-22)
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mendicant (1321-22)

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  FEW:  mendicare 6/i,705a Gdf:  mendicant 5,233c GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  mendiier (mendicant)  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED:  mendicant n. and adj.  MED:  mendicaunt n. and adj.  DMLBS: ∅
mendicante,  menducant  

a.

1mendicant, begging: 
( 1321-22 )  il sont mendicant et lour pain querant  i 411
( 1334 )  [...] sont empoveryz et faits menducantz  ii 86
frere mendicant
frere
ordre mendicant
1eccl.monasticChristian religious order whose member originally lived solely on alms: 
( 1382 )  Item jeo devise a les quatre orders mendicauntes pur prier pur moy par avys du mes executours vint marcz  54
mender#1  mendiable  mendicité  mendiement  mendier  mendieté  mendivance  mendiver  mendiveté 
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