Pico Iyer : Imagining Canada
This is the lecture from which the essay about
a world of honorary Canadians that I pointed to a couple weeks ago was excerpted. 21h00 EST (real audio)
The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide :
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is mendicant
| source : web1913 |
Mendicant \Men"di*cant\, a. [L. mendicans, -antis, p. pr. of
mendicare to beg, fr. mendicus beggar, indigent.]
Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant
friars.
{Mendicant orders} (R. C. Ch.), certain monastic orders which
are forbidden to acquire landed property and are required
to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the
Dominicans, the Carmelites, and the Augustinians.
| source : web1913 |
Mendicant \Men"di*cant\, n.
A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging;
specifically, a begging friar.
| source : wn |
mendicant
adj : practicing beggary; "mendicant friars"
n 1: a male religious of an order of mendicant preachers of the
gospel [syn: {friar}]
2: a pauper who lives by begging [syn: {beggar}]