Beadle

Word BEADLE
Character 6
Hyphenation bea dle
Pronunciations [ˈbiːdəɫ]

Definitions and meanings of "Beadle"

What do we mean by beadle?

A minor parish official formerly employed in an English church to usher and keep order during services. noun

One who makes proclamation; a herald. noun

A crier or messenger of a court; a servitor; one who cites persons to appear and answer. noun

In universities, a subaltern official or servant, properly and usually termed a bedel (which see). noun

In England, a parish officer having various subordinate duties, such as keeping order in church, punishing petty offenders, waiting on the clergyman, attending meetings of vestry or session, etc. noun

The apparitor of a trades guild or company. Also spelled bedell and bedel, in senses 2 and 3. noun

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. noun

An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students. noun

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. noun

A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order noun

An attendant to the minister noun

A warrant officer noun

A minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function noun

United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989) noun

A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order

(ecclesiastic) an attendant to the minister

A warrant officer

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The word "beadle" in example sentences

Other brewers 'draymen became obstreperous too, one calling the beadle that stopped him "a rogue" and another vowing that if he knew the beadle "he would have a touch with him at quarterstaff." ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The beadle is a very grand personage, and his appearance sufficiently indicates this fact. ❋ Various (N/A)

In this piece of cloth is carried a box containing a stuff to chew called beadle nut. ❋ Needom N. Freeman (N/A)

I once ventured to tell him that even a beadle was a sacred being in his eyes, and he did not deny the soft impeachment. ❋ George William Erskine Russell (1886)

The beadle was the next person who came into my head. ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)

The beadle is the only sober man in the composition except the pawnbroker, and he is mightily indifferent to the orphan-child crying beside its parent's coffin. ❋ John Forster (1844)

They were at first five in number, but afterwards increased to ten; they had no external mark of dignity, except a kind of beadle, called ❋ Charles K. Dillaway (N/A)

The "beadle" group of names has been confused with ❋ Ernest Weekley (1909)

This is done to create an awe and respect towards him in the eye of the vulgar; but lest it should elevate him too much in his own opinion, in order to his humiliation he receives every evening in private, from a kind of beadle, a gentle kick on his posteriors; besides which he wears a ring in his nose, somewhat resembling that we ring our pigs with, and a chain round his neck not unlike that worn by our aldermen; both which I suppose to be emblematical, but heard not the reasons of either assigned. ❋ Henry Fielding (1730)

Oops - Forgot that I spoke to jeremy beadle on the old "Talk Radio" back in 1994! ❋ Norfolk Blogger (2009)

Seeing the paupers coming in, the beadle supervisor walking by. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The two main synagogues of Fostat, the Palestinian (Ben Ezra) and the Iraqi, both had a khadima, the female equivalent of khadim, or beadle. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Wringoo wuz awlways mai fabrit beadle cuz himz funny! ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of the things you're not meant to do in there is whistle – among the arcade's target clientele, whistling is considered to be a rather lower-class activity - and I've always been tempted to try whistling in there to see if a beadle throws me out. ❋ Hels (2009)

An old beggar police spy, an ex-beadle, to whom this person had given alms, added a few more details. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He was an ex-beadle of seventy-five, who was constantly mumbling his prayers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It seemed to him that he had just caught sight, by the light of the street lantern, not of the placid and beaming visage of the old beadle, but of a well-known and startling face. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Bishop sent for him, reproved him gently, and appointed him beadle in the cathedral. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But when the grey-headed beadle turned the keys with his shaking hand, the antiquary was admitted into an ancient building, which, from the style of its architecture, and some monuments of the Mowbrays of ❋ Unknown (2008)

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