late 14c., from Latin mendicantem (nominative mendicans) present participle of mendicare "to beg, ask alms," from mendicus "beggar," originally "cripple" (connection via cripples who must beg), from menda "fault, physical defect" (see mendacious). As an adjective from 1540s. Also in Middle English was mendinant (mid-14c.), from Old French mendinant, present participle of mendiner "to beg," from the same Latin source.
mendicant (n.)
"a beggar," mid-15c., from mendicant (adj.) or from Latin mendicantem (nominative mendicans), noun use of present participle of mendicare.
雙語例句
1. He seemed not an ordinary mendicant.
他好象不是尋常的乞丐。
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2. This dear little naked mendicant pretends to be utterly helpless.
這可愛的赤裸的乞兒,假裝全然無助.
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3. A member of a usually mendicant Roman Catholic order.
托缽修會修士?；壍牧_馬天主教會成員.
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4. Then the mendicant did it.
接著乞丐就做了倒立.
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5. A fifth order, the Servites, founded in 1233, was acknowledged as mendicant order in 1424.