Associations to the word «Mendicity»

Wiktionary

MENDICITY, noun. The state of being a beggar; mendicancy or beggary

Dictionary definition

MENDICITY, noun. The state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky