Bishop Hall: Satires

2. Reduced to beggary; begging. B. As subst.: A beggar; one who begs alms: spec if. a member of a mendicant order or fiaternity; a mendicant friar. "She from her chest of meal Takes one unsparing handful for the scrip Of this old mendicant ." Words worth: Old Cumber land Beggar . Mendicant Friars, s . pl . [MENDICANT ORDERS.] Mendicant Orders, s. pl. Eccles. & Church Hist .: Monastic orders, which, by their rule, were forbidden to acquire landed property in any manner whatsoever, but were compelled to subsist on alms, in many instances in their early history, and in some cases even now, in some countries under the Roman obedience, actually gathered by begging. They date from the thirteenth century, and at first consisted of the Carmelites, the Do mini cans, and the Francis cans. In the latter half of the century the August in i ans became a mendicant order, and the Servites were recognized by Pope Innocent VIII., in 1487, as a fifth mendicant 4. To amend; to make better; to improve; to order. Hallam notes that these new preachers at alter for the better; to ameliorate; to correct. "A man I salle the make, richely for to lyue, Or my Chefe Justice, the lawes to mend and right." Robert de Brunne, p. 69. 5. To advance, to further, to improve. 6. To add to, to increase. 7. To increase, to quicken, to accelerate. "Judgment, however tardy, mends her pace, When obstinacy once has conquer'd grace." Cowper: Expostulation, 785. *8. To adjust, to set right. "He will mend the ruff and sing."- Shakesp .: All's Well that Ends Well , iii. 2. *9. To improve upon. "We'll mend our dinner here." -Shakesp.: Comedy of Errors, iv. 3. B. In trans.: To grow or become better; to improve, to amend. "What think you of this fool? Doth he not mend?"Shakesp.: Twelfth Night , i. 5. *měnd, s . [MEND, v.] An amendment; a correction, a remedy. "If she be fair, 'tis the better for her; an she be not, she has the mends in her own hands." -Shakesp.: Troilus and Cre ida, i i.