"state or condition of beggary, act of begging," 1758, from mendicant + abstract noun suffix -cy. Also in this sense was mendicity (c. 1400), from Old French mendicité "begging," from Latin mendicitatem (nominative mendicitas) "beggary, mendicity."
they were reduced to mendicancy
mendacity
mendelevium
Mendelism
mender
*mendh-
mendicancy
mendicant
mendicity
Mendoza line
Menelaus
menfolk
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