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men.di.cant5men7dI7k[ntn [C], adj [not gradable] fml(of) a person who asks people they do not know for money; a BEGGAR行乞的，乞丐的High unemployment has caused the number of homeless people and mendicants to rise in the city.高失业率造成这个城市的无家可归者与乞丐的人数上升。Mendicant is also used to refer to a member of a religious group established in the Middle Ages, whose members were not allowed to own property and who lived by asking people to give them food and money.托钵修道会的The Franciscans were a mendicant order.方济各会是托钵修道会的一种。Mendicant friars were often involved in missionary work.托钵僧经常参与传教工作。
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