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Example sentences for "mendicant"

Lexicographically close words:
mendax; mended; mender; menders; mendicancy; mendicants; mendicity; mending; mendis; mends
  1. Was it here that Richepin partly studied the mendicant fraternity, giving us in poetry his astounding appreciation, psychological and linguistic?

  2. Scrips, wallets, bags, staves, dogs and crutches, the whole mendicant fraternity with all their baggage are fast hasting out of the purlieus of this eleventh persecution.

  3. It was the birth of the mendicant orders which obliged the entire body of secular clergy to take up the practice of preaching.

  4. It is the opposite extreme, and we are true and just to St. Francis and to the origin of the mendicant orders only when we do not separate the obligation of labor from the praise of mendicity.

  5. These attacks by certain bishops are in nowise surprising; they are episodes in the struggle of the secular clergy against the mendicant orders.

  6. The attempt of Durand of Huesca to create a mendicant order has not yet been studied with sufficient minuteness.

  7. In the humble mendicant he perceived an apostle and prophet whose mouth no power could close.

  8. A Jew pedlar or mendicant foreigner with his cigar in his mouth, has it in his power to turn the draft of sweet air into a cup of bitterness.

  9. Perhaps Angelo's objection was more to the quality of the cigar that would be smoked by a "Jew pedlar or mendicant foreigner," than to the cigar itself.

  10. Half of their time is lost in observing the great number of festivals; and half of their substance is given to mendicant friars and parish priests.

  11. They are monks who never marry, but are quite different from other mendicant brotherhoods, the so-called Sannyasi and Hossein.

  12. Fakirs, bairagis, hosseins, the whole body of the mendicant brotherhood, was present among the crowd.

  13. The remainder of the story of the Third Royal Mendicant is almost wholly omitted in the Cairo edition.

  14. And in that same clemency of the southern heavens Pierre also found an explanation of the life of St. Francis,* that divine mendicant of love who roamed the high roads extolling the charms of poverty.

  15. St. Francis of Assisi, the founder of the famous order of mendicant friars.

  16. With the Buddhists the care of souls lay entirely in the hands of the wandering Bhikshus, the mendicant monks, unless indeed in a few cases laymen attached themselves of their own free will to some not too distant monastery.

  17. Their only effect was to assemble a ragged mob of students, peasants, mendicant friars, half-starved adventurers and romantic fanatics.

  18. But his account does not come down to the establishment of the Mendicant Orders of Friars.

  19. They are generally delivered, in the open air, by friars of the Mendicant Orders, in those parts of the city and suburbs which are chiefly, if not exclusively, inhabited by the lower classes.

  20. Your Paternities are bound to follow the footsteps of the other and mendicant orders in matters so justifiable and for the common welfare; and I am confident that I shall receive your support.

  21. At an opportune moment, therefore, two mendicant orders, the Dominicans and the Franciscans, were instituted to meet the new needs of the Church.

  22. The assessors were always to be jurists and Mendicant Friars, selected by the Inquisitor in such numbers as he saw fit.

  23. The Rule of St. Francis signalised the advent of the Mendicant orders in the thirteenth century.

  24. It is to be noted that the denomination of monks is not generally attributed to the religious who follow the rule of St. Augustine, nor to the Mendicant orders.

  25. The Beghards or Beguines were a lay mendicant order, and in the 13th century mendicants calling themselves by these names swarmed over Western Europe.

  26. They have to the amount of fifty millions, including the masses, and alms to the mendicant monks, who really lay a considerable tax on the people.

  27. The engraving representing the birth of Eve, is from the Speculum Salutis, or the Mirror of Salvation, of which many manuscript copies were issued, for the instruction of the mendicant friars, between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.

  28. After the people mendicant increased Behind this man, whose admirable life Better in glory of the heavens were sung, Incoronated with a second crown Was through Honorius by the Eternal Spirit The holy purpose of this Archimandrite.

  29. Finally, he demanded that they should order a search to be made for the mendicant friar whose resemblance to the Mauprats had not yet been explained, and had been sworn to by trustworthy witnesses.

  30. The retreat chosen by the Trappist was of those innumerable mendicant societies which France supported at that time.

  31. They may be compared to Homer, who, we are told, was reduced to be a mendicant in the same seven cities which afterwards sharply disputed with each other the honor of having given him birth.

  32. It was the light of a lantern, carried by a man who might have been the double of that yellow-robed mendicant who had first unconsciously led me to this accursed place.

  33. The mendicant was fully half a mile away from me, but in that clear tropical air was plainly visible; and, fearing that he might look around, I stepped back into the comparative shadow of the gorge and watched.

  34. I had not waited very long before a yellow-robed mendicant passed by, carrying a bundle not unlike my own, whereby I concluded that he had come some distance.

  35. His mendicant and spiritless descendant had to go away with a cold withering refusal from Tiberius, softened by a contemptuous dole to his sons.

  36. But Juvenal is chiefly thinking of the mendicant population from Palestine who swarmed in the neighbourhood of the Porta Capena and the grove of the Muses, practising all the arts which have appealed in all ages to superstitious women.

  37. The "mendicant monks" of paganism have been painted with all the vices of the dog and ape by Martial and Petronius and Seneca, by Dion and Athenaeus and Alciphron and Epictetus, above all by Lucian.

  38. Thus in original, but it is carelessly worded; for the Society of Jesus is not one of the mendicant orders.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mendicant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abstainer; anchorite; ascetic; austere; beggar; beggared; beggarly; begging; bereaved; bereft; brother; bum; bummer; cadger; celibate; deprived; dervish; disadvantaged; drone; fakir; fleeced; friar; hermit; hobo; impoverished; indigent; loafer; mendicant; monastic; monk; needy; parasite; pauper; pauperized; pilgrim; prayerful; puritanical; religious; sponger; stripped; suppliant; supplicant; supplicatory; tramp; unemployed