mendicants
Those requesting charity
Mendicants are people who live by begging, particularly members of religious orders who renounce property and survive on alms.
Franciscan and Dominican friars are mendicants, vowed to poverty and dependent on charity.
The term extends to any habitual beggar: Mendicants gathered near the temple gates.
The adjective mendicant describes this practice or lifestyle.
Mendicant religious order members
- monksCloistered religious men
- beggarsThose soliciting charity
- almsGifts to the destitute
- FranciscansCatholic mendicant religious order
Dominicans · wandering · vows · poverty · ascetics · holy · orders · robes
Gifts to the destitute
- charityVoluntary aid for others
- povertySevere lack of resources
- homelessWithout a dwelling
- streetsPublic urban ways
handouts · destitution · vagrants · supplicants · coins · compassion · doorstep · pleading
Formal surrender of claim
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
- simplicityLack of complexity
- humilityFreedom from arrogance
- worldlyExperienced in practical affairs
materialism · spiritual · asceticism · voluntary · poverty · discipline · enlightenment · suffering
friars
Mendicant religious order members
Franciscans · Dominicans · wandering · vows · poverty · ascetics · holy · orders · robes · bowl
alms
Gifts to the destitute
streets · handouts · destitution · vagrants · supplicants · coins · compassion · doorstep · pleading · wanderers
renunciation
Formal surrender of claim
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
- simplicityLack of complexity
- humilityFreedom from arrogance
worldly · materialism · spiritual · asceticism · voluntary · poverty · discipline · enlightenment · suffering · wisdom
- Middle AgesMiddle Ages, medieval period, castles, knights, Dark Ages
- believersbeliever, believers, adherent, devotee, theist
- monasticismabbeys, abbey, abbots, abbot, cloister
- asceticsascetic, ascetics, hermit, hermits, recluse
- Catholic figurescardinals, archbishops, abbots, bishops, friars
- Catholic monasticismabbeys, abbots, abbesses, brothers, sisters
mendicantsthe rich
Moneyed segment of society
plutocrats · millionaires · billionaires · tycoons · magnates
mendicantsbenefactors
Givers of aid
philanthropists · almsgivers · patrons · donors · givers