1. (n.) A beggar; one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar\.

2. (a.) Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars.

Albigensian Catharist Franciscan Sabbatarian Trappist Waldensian abbacomes abbot abstainer abstinent anchorite anchoritic ascetic austere beadsman beggar beggared beggarly begging bereaved bereft bhikshu brother bum bummer cadger cadging caloyer celibate cenobite conventual conventual prior coupon clippers deprived dervish disadvantaged drone eremitic fakir flagellant fleeced freeloader friar ghettoized grand prior hermit hieromonach hobo idle rich impoverished in need in rags in want indigent lay abbot lay brother leisure class loafer lounge lizard lumpen proletariat mendicant friar mendicant order monastic monk moocher mooching necessitous needy nonworker on relief out at elbows palmer panhandler parasite pauperized petitionary pilgrim pillar saint pillarist poverty-stricken prayerful precative prior puritan puritanical religieux religious rentiers rigoristic sannyasi schnorrer scrounger scrounging self-denying spiv sponger starveling stripped stylite suppliant supplicant supplicating supplicatory the unemployable the unemployed tramp underprivileged wedded to poverty yogi yogin