new words – mendicant and gramarye

Mendicant has two definitions, the first being a beggar, but I think the second definition fits better here.

Mendicant – a member of a religious order (such as the Franciscans) combining monastic life and outside religious activity and originally owning neither personal nor community property. A friar

Gramarye – necromancy, magic, enchantment

Here is the sentence, again from The Orchard Keeper, describing someone waking up after falling unconscious in the woods:

“With grass in his mouth the old man sat up and peered about him, heard the rain mendicant-voiced, soft chanting in that dark gramarye that summons the earth to bridehood.”