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A mendicant is someone who lives by asking other people for money or food. The special, older use is religious: some orders of monks and friars were mendicant — they owned little, and asking for food was part of their way of life. You still meet mendicant order in history books. The word can also mean any beggar, but that use is formal or literary; on the street people say beggar. As a describing word it names that asking-to-live way: a mendicant friar. It is a book word with a church history, not a playground insult.
托缽修士；托缽者（宗教上靠人布施過活，不是口語裡的遊民）
組成From Latin mendīcō（乞討）. The -ant ending marks the person who is begging, or the word that describes that way of life.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
mendicantadj/ˈmɛn.dɪ.kənt/
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Depending on alms for a living.
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Of or pertaining to a beggar.
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Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living.
mendicantnoun/ˈmɛn.dɪ.kənt/
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A pauper who lives by begging.
- I made £150 by Alton Locke, and never lost a farthing; and I got, not in spite of, but by the rows, a name and a standing with many a one who would never have heard of me otherwise, and I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer, while I was winning by the cross, though I didn't mean to fight one.
- Across Ukraine, the initial shock over the confrontation, which culminated in President Donald Trump summarily dismissing Mr. Zelenskyy from the White House as if he were some ungrateful mendicant, has subsided.
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A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a living.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。