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Verb: mendicate
Usage: archaic
  1. Beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money
    "The homeless man was forced to mendicate to survive";
    - panhandle [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: mendicating, mendicates, mendicated

Type of: beg