1) Ceremonial macebearer 2) Church of england officer 3) Church officer 4) Court messenger 5) English church official 6) Exclusively Anglo word 7) Exclusively Saxon word 8) Functionary 9) Official 10) Old usher 11) Parish officer 12) Parish official 13) Sexton 14) Word of purely Anglo origin 15) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins
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a minor parish official whose duties include ushering and preserving order at services and sometimes civil functions. Some parishes hired them to run the workhouse after the 1834 New Poor Law was passed as was the case with Bumble, the beadle in Oliver Twist.
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Beadle, sometimes spelled `bedel,` is a lay official of a church or synagogue who may usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has pre-Conquest origins in Old English, deriving from the Old English bydel (`herald, messenger ......
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church caretaker or usher; mace-bearing official of an institution
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• (v.) An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc. • (v.) A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner. • (v.) An officer in a univ...
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Manorial manager that collects seed at harvest for next year's crop.
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British official whose function has had many variations. In Saxon England, the beadle called householders to the moot (an assembly of freemen). After the Norman Conquest the beadle was an officer...
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1. A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; called also an apparitor or summoner. ... 2. An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students. ... In this sense the archaic spellings bedel (Oxford) and bedell (Cambridge) are preserved. ... 3. An inferior parish ...
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a salaried official in London *wards with a number of duties including supervision of the *night watch
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Bea'dle noun [ Middle English
bedel ,
bidel ,
budel , Old French
bedel , French
bedeau , from Old High German
butil ,
putil , German
büttel , from Old High German
biotan , German
bieten , to bid, confused with Anglo-Saxon
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Full time officials in the City of London with the responsibility for maintaining order during the day and organising the night watch in their ward of the city.
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A beadle was a British parish officer, chosen by the vestry, who acted as a messenger and servant, keeping order in church and punishing petty offenders. The name was also used for a person whose duty it was to bid or cite persons to appear to a summons.
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Beadle is docker slang for a dock policeman.
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[
n] - United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989) 2. [n] - a minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves order at services
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George Wells Beadle noun United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989)
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noun a minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves order at services
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a parish officer having various subordinate duties, as keeping order during services, waiting on the rector, etc. · sexton (def. 2).
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