mendicant

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The remainder of the story of the Third Royal Mendicant is almost wholly omitted in the Cairo edition.

From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous

One who obtained an unenviable notoriety by his intemperate invectives against the Mendicant Orders, was educated there—Henry Crump, an Englishman, and monk of the Abbey of Baltinglas.

From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous

Oxford, 180 Mathematics, 20, 224, 225, 226 Mathilda, Empress, 47 Medicine, 221 Mellitus, Bishop, 17 Mendicant Orders, 170, 182 et seq.

From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Parry, Albert William

He doubtless brought with him the revolutionary ideas of the Hussites, and he seems to have entered into an alliance with the parish priest and a Mendicant Friar or Beghard.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

The Mendicant Orders were already a sufficiently dangerous factor, and now came these new inquisitors, armed with papal commissions, superseding their time-honored jurisdiction in every spot within their dioceses.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles