Finally, I've noticed that nobody links to anything anymore. The site (like the web) is getting filled up with posts that don't link to related posts. Maybe this is because people don't know how to use the brackets, or just choose not to. It's starting to look like the web in general, all stand-alone pages, all kind of lonely for their distant and not so distant relations...

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bbq:~ # dict mendicant
3 definitions found

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Mendicant \Men"di*cant\, a. [L. mendicans, -antis, p. pr. of
     mendicare to beg, fr. mendicus beggar, indigent.]
     Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant
     friars.

     {Mendicant orders} (R. C. Ch.), certain monastic orders which
        are forbidden to acquire landed property and are required
        to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the
        Dominicans, the Carmelites, and the Augustinians.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Mendicant \Men"di*cant\, n.
     A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging;
     specifically, a begging friar.

From WordNet (r) 1.6 [wn]:

  mendicant
       adj : practicing beggary; "mendicant friars"
       n 1: a male religious of an order of mendicant preachers of the
            gospel [syn: {friar}]
       2: a pauper who lives by begging [syn: {beggar}]
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