mendication

English

Noun

mendication (uncountable)

  1. The act or practice of begging; beggary.
    • Sir Thomas Browne
      For, Suidas is silent herein, Cedrenus and Zonaras, two grave and punctual authors, delivering only the confiscation of his goods, omit the history of his mendication.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mendication in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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