mendicancy
121pauperization — noun 1. the act of making someone poor • Syn: ↑pauperisation, ↑impoverishment • Derivationally related forms: ↑impoverish (for: ↑impoverishment), ↑pauperise ( …
122solicitation — noun 1. an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status a solicitation to the king for relief • Derivationally related forms: ↑solicit • Hypernyms: ↑entreaty, ↑prayer, ↑appeal • Hyponyms …
123babism — ˈbäˌbizəm noun ( s) Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Bab, title of Ali Mohammed of Shiraz died 1850 Persian religious leader, its founder + English ism : the doctrine and practice of a 19th century Iranian sect that affirmed the… …
124fa|kir|ism — «fuh KIHR ihz uhm, FAY kuhr », noun. 1. religious mendicancy, especially as practiced among Muslim dervishes. 2. the ascetic practices of Hindu fakirs …
125men|dic|i|ty — «mehn DIHS uh tee», noun. beggary; mendicancy: »Among the poor, and in times of great strife among all that are displaced, mendicity becomes a way of life. ╂[< Middle French mendicité, learned borrowing from Latin mendīcitās, ātis <… …
126BEGGING AND BEGGARS — Although the Bible is concerned with the poor and the needy, there is hardly a reference to begging or to beggars, and there is, in fact, no biblical Hebrew word for it. The needs of the poor were provided by the laws of leket, shikhḥah , and pe… …
