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See Lycanthropy, 2.

Pertaining to lycanthropy.

One affected by the disease lycanthropy.

Lycanthropic.

The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf. Lowell.

A merchant. [Obs.] Shak.

Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars. Mendicant orders (R. C. Ch.), certain monastic orders which are forbidden to acquire landed property and are required to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Carmelites, and the Augustinians.

ing and selling of commodities; commercial. The expedition of the Argonauts was partly mercantile, partly military. Arbuthnot. Mercantile agency, an agency for procuring information of the standing and credit of merchants in different parts of the country, for the use of dealers who sell to them. -- Mercantile marine,…

Biting; acrid; as, the mordicant quality of a body. [R.] Boyle.

A mundificant ointment or plaster.

Having numerous spines, as certain fishes.

To surpass in canting. Pope.

Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels. Milton.

In a peccant manner.

A hypothetical genus of primates intermediate between man and the anthropoid apes. Haeckel.

One who prays. [R.] Coleridge.

Predicating; affirming; declaring; proclaiming; hence; preaching. "The Roman predicant orders." N. Brit. Rev.

Influenced by prejudice; biased. [R.] " With not too hasty and prejudicant ears." Milton.

The evergreen thorn (Cratægus Pyracantha), a shrub native of Europe.

Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy.