mendicant

Depending on alms for a living; practicing begging.

Of or relating to religious orders whose members are forbidden to own property individually or in common and must work or beg for their livings.

A beggar.

A member of a mendicant order.

Begging; reduced to a condition of beggary

Practising beggary; living by alms or doles: as, a mendicant friar. See friar.

A beggar; one who lives by asking alms; especially, a member of a begging order or fraternity; a begging friar.

Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms.

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.

A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.