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Definition of Beadle

1. Noun. A minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function.

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

Definition of Beadle

1. n. 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.

Definition of Beadle

1. Noun. a parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order ¹

2. Noun. (context: Scotland ecclesiastic) an attendant to the minister ¹

3. Noun. a warrant officer ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Beadle

1. a parish official [n -S]

Medical Definition of Beadle

1. 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 officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc. Origin: OE. Bedel, bidel, budel, OF. Bedel, F. Bedeau, fr. OHG. Butil, putil, G. Buttel, fr. OHG. Biotan, G. Bieten, to bid, confused with AS. Bydel, the same word as OHG. Butil. See. Bid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beadle

beader beaders beadery beadful beadhouse beadhouses beadier beadiest beadily beadiness

beadinesses beading beading of the ribs beading plane beadings beadledom beadledoms beadleries beadlery beadles

beadleship beadless beadlike beadman beadmen beadroll beadrolls beads beadsman

Literary usage of Beadle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete (1834)
"Here and there—Every where ; Holloa, now !—What's the row? Fine to do—Who are you ? Why, zounds! I'm the beadle of the parish. ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"No, Master beadle, Your place, I take it, is to walk before, And hold your ... beadle. Hush, hush, they're coming out. Enter from the Church-door Mr and Mrs ..."

3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1897)
"The next morning, at the luncheon- hour, a breathless beadle, with a red beard and a ... said the Red beadle gruffly. He glanced round the denuded room. ..."

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