1) Oxford official 
The bedel (from medieval Latin pedellus or bidellus, occasionally bidellus generalis, from Old High German bital, pital, `the one who invites, calls`; cognate with beadle) was, and is to some extent still, an administrative official at universities in several European countries, and often had a policiary function at the time when universities ha.....
• (n.) Alt. of Bedell
Alternative spelling of beadle. ...