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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the state of being a beggar or mendicant;
- Example: "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]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]