mendicancy

3 definitions found

mendicancy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mendicancy \Men"di*can*cy\, n.
     The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. --Burke.
     [1913 Webster]

mendicancy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mendicancy
      n 1: the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were
           reduced to mendicancy" [syn: beggary, mendicancy,
           mendicity]
      2: a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by
         an apparently penniless person) [syn: beggary, begging,
         mendicancy]

mendicancy - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "mendicancy":
     bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, begging,
     bumming, cadging, deprivation, destitution, empty purse,
     grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, homelessness,
     impoverishment, indigence, lack, mendicity, moneylessness,
     mooching, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, panhandling,
     pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch, privation, scrounging,
     sponging, want