Some of them retained their original character; others fell completely under the dominion of the friars, and were ultimately converted into houses of Dominican, Franciscan or Augustinian tertiaries; others again fell under the influence of the mystic movements of the 13th century, turned in increasing numbers from work to mendicancy (as being nearer the Christ-life), practised the most cruel self-tortures, and lapsed into extravagant heresies that called down upon them the condemnation of popes and councils.'   anvd [Please select]

Tuberculosis, lunacy, war and mendicancy must now cease.   anvd [Please select]

Mendicancy: that of the fraudulent bankrupt with negligible assets paying 1s.   anvd [Please select]

It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.   anvd [Please select]

Since free thought was impossible, private enterprise gave way to mendicancy and indolence.   anvd [Please select]

I thought this better and better still, and as I began to pull on my hose, recalling the man’s impudent mendicancy at Prestongrange’s, I determined to pursue what seemed to be my victory.   anvd [Please select]

Yet the colony abounded in idle men, and mendicancy at one time assumed such proportions as to require the enforcement of stringent penalties.   anvd [Please select]