Mendicity is forbidden in the Jura as in the Department of the Doubs, and there is little real pinching poverty to be found among the rural population, though of course a laboriousness and economy unknown among our own.
The Council of Trent confined mendicity to the Observantines and Capuchins, since the other societies had practically abandoned their original interpretation of their vow of poverty and had acquired permanent property.
While it is true that a begging monk was by no means unknown, yet now, for the first time, was the practice of mendicity formally adopted by entire orders.
Nothing could have a stronger tendency to promote that vagabond mendicity which severe statutes were enacted to repress.
In the early years of the 19th century the mendicity societies, established in some of the larger towns, were a sign of the general discontent with existing methods of administration.
The poverty is so great in Dublin, that a single benevolent institution, theMendicity Association, gives relief to 2,500 persons or one per cent.
Alison asserts that this extensive quarter is as filthy and horrible as the worst district of Dublin, while the Mendicity Association would have as great a proportion of needy persons to assist in Edinburgh as in the Irish capital.
An alarming forgery of Mendicity Society's tickets has been discovered in Red Lion Square, and has caused much conversation at the doors of most of the gin palaces.
As a statesman he is powerless; but he has no objection to subscribe to the Mendicity Society.
Will mendicity societies, when they tell us about, enumerate for us, and convict for us the hoary impostors, also tell us about and enumerate for us the stricken men and women who are not impostors, and whose fits are unfortunately genuine?
Of them, however, many adopt mendicity as a profession, especially during the Hadj, when the pilgrims are bound to exercise that virtue which is so particularly enjoined by the precepts of Mohammed.
Mendicity is much encouraged by the pilgrims, who are fond of displaying their charity on first touching holy ground at this place.
Moira House, now the 'Mendicity Institution,' is situated within a few doors of No.
The Pontifical Government encourages mendicity by the protection of its agents, and recommends it by the example of its friars.
Mendicity is all the more flourishing, as is apparent to every one.
An elderly man who has charge of the mendicity institution for whose purposes the house is at present used, told me that he remembered it when kept up by the family, although its members were not actually residing there.
The witness who knowingly perverts the truth, often betrays his mendicity by his voice, his countenance, or his choice of words; while the unconscious perverter gives his testimony with all the force of sincerity.
Mendicity Society: a bodkin that had so often pierced Billy to the heart--his wooden leg, earnestly desiring he might receive it in his latter end.
Mendicity Society, which office it was said he found more lucrative.
A meeting, presided over by the Mayor, was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, for the purpose of "taking into consideration the state of mendicity in the city.
Edward Harbord, it was unanimously resolved to establish a Society for the Suppression of Mendicity in Norwich.
But the mendicity of the nineteenth century presents a very different spectacle from the mendicity of the seventeenth.
In the rural districts vagrancy and mendicity still survive, in spite of constabulary forces and petty sessions.
It is a pity that, despite the good work it accomplishes, the Society for the Suppression of Mendicity should have weighty reasons for lamenting the falling-off of public support it has of late experienced.
As regards the Mendicity Society, there can be no doubt what is the popular impression.
THE Society for the Suppression of Mendicity has done more towards checking imposture, and bringing evildoers to punishment, than the Government itself, notwithstanding all the elaborate and expensive machinery at its command.
Mendicity is a monarchy; it is governed by peculiar laws, and has a language of its own.
The poverty of the rural districts, excessive in itself, becomes yet more so through the disturbances it engenders; we have not to seek elsewhere for frightful sources of mendicity and for all the vices.
The political economists were about that time beginning their war upon mendicity in all its forms, and by implication, if not directly, on alms-giving also.
Poor Gillies never rose above the course of extravagance in which he was at that time living, and which soon reduced him to poverty and all its degrading shifts, mendicity being far from the worst.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mendicity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
