Definition of Bedehouse

1. n. Same as Beadhouse.

Definition of Bedehouse

1. Noun. (alternative form of beadhouse) ¹

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Definition of Bedehouse

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedehouse

bede
bedeafen
bedeafened
bedeafening
bedeafens
bedeal
bedeck
bedecked
bedecked(p)
bedecking
bedecks
bedeem
bedeen
bedeguar
bedeguars
bedehouse (current term)
bedehouses
bedel
bedell
bedells
bedelries
bedelry
bedels
bedelve
bedeman
bedemen
beden
bederal
bederals
bederite

Literary usage of Bedehouse

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

1. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1902)
"All that house called the bedehouse with a backside thereunto belonging, containing by estimation one perch, scituate in the Abbey Town, now or late in the ..."

2. Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery: By the Right Hon by Nicholas Simons, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Leach, Anthony Hart, Lancelot Shadwell, Richard Torin Kindersley (1854)
"... and had set them in real possession of the same bedehouse: and that, by virtue of the said letters patent, he had reserved to him, during his life, ..."

3. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1906)
"... BROWNE'S to be the first Warden and Confrater of the same; and had set HOSPITAL. them in real possession of the same bedehouse: and that, ..."

4. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1849)
"There is, in the chapel attached to the bedehouse at Higham Ferrers something that probably will greatly assist us in solving this difficult problem, ..."

5. Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland: Being a Complete ...Great Britain (1900)
"Archdeacon Johnson's Rutland charity, which embraces the schools of O. and Uppingham, and a provision for poor pensioners known as the bedehouse people, ..."

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