Crossword clues for mendicancy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mendicancy \Men"di*can*cy\, n.
The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging.
--Burke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"state or condition of beggary," 1790, from mendicant + -cy. Also in this sense was mendicity (c.1400), from Old French mendicité "begging," from Latin mendicitatem (nominative mendicitas) "beggary, mendicity."
Wiktionary
n. The act or state of being a mendicant
WordNet
Usage examples of "mendicancy".
It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.
Thus hard bested, and at length reduced to mendicancy, he made his way, so as least discomfortably he might, to Rome, being minded to see whether Titus would remember him: and there, learning that Titus lived, and was much affected by all the Romans, and having found out his house, he took his stand in front of it, and watched until Titus came by.