mendicancy
1Mendicancy — Men di*can*cy, n. The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. Burke. [1913 Webster] …
2mendicancy — index poverty, privation Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
3mendicancy — (n.) state or condition of beggary, 1790, from MENDICANT (Cf. mendicant) + CY (Cf. cy). Also in this sense was mendicity (c.1400), from O.Fr. mendicité begging, from L. mendicitatem (nom. mendicitas) beggary, mendicity …
4mendicancy — noun 1. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) • Syn: ↑beggary, ↑begging • Derivationally related forms: ↑mendicant, ↑beg (for: ↑beggary) …
5mendicancy squad — noun police who arrested beggars and homeless people It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the look out for the mendicancy squad. The Gift of the Magi O. Henry 1906 …
6mendicancy — noun Date: 1711 1. the condition of being a beggar 2. the practice of begging …
7mendicancy — /men di keuhn see/, n. 1. the practice of begging, as for alms. 2. the state or condition of being a beggar. [1780 90; MENDIC(ANT) + ANCY] * * * …
8mendicancy — noun The act or state of being a mendicant …
9mendicancy — Synonyms and related words: bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, begging, bumming, cadging, deprivation, destitution, empty purse, grinding poverty, gripe, hand to mouth existence, homelessness, impoverishment, indigence, lack …
10mendicancy — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition of being a beggar: beggary, mendicity. See RICH …
