单词 | mendivaunt |
释义 | † mendivaunt Obs. Also mendyfaunte, -vaunt. [f. OF. (chiefly AF.) mendif, altered form of mendi:—L. mendīcus (see mendicant). As mendyuaunt and mendynaunt would usually be indistinguishable in the MSS., it is possible that some or all of the examples under mendinant may belong to this word. In those given below the MSS. have f or v, not u.] = mendicant n.
c1400Mandeville (1839) xix. 210 There duellen many religious men, as it were of the ordre of Freres: for thei ben Mendyfauntes. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 541 Other ordrys vertuous. Mendyvauntys ful nedy. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. lix. (1869) 35, j make him yiue and departe that he hath to the needy and to mendivauns. |

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