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Beadle   /bˈidəl/   Listen
Beadle

noun
1.
A minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function.
2.
United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989).  Synonyms: George Beadle, George Wells Beadle.



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"Beadle" Quotes from Famous Books



... or that a leading company of players in the metropolis, one of whom, and a chief one, was his own townsman, should cheerfully adopt into their society, as an honored partner, a young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle? ...
— Biographical Essays • Thomas de Quincey
... monumental preacher of the clean-shaven face and rolling black hair, but a man who in no line met the hopes raised by the impressive picture. A murmur of disappointment ran through the hall. Doctor Todd, following the great men in the humble capacity of beadle, stilled it with a ...
— David Malcolm • Nelson Lloyd
... thy soul, and with all thy might. This is the first great commandment, and the second is like unto it; thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself; on these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. The Verger and Beadle hold the Bible, on which the ...
— The Mysteries of Free Masonry - Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge • William Morgan
... seaman that could rattle off his catechism within fifty mile of you. Here's five guineas out of my own pocket,' he says; 'and what's more to the pint,' he says, 'I'll speak to my reverend brother-in-law, the Bishop of Dover,' he says; 'and if ever you leave the sea, and wants a place as beadle, why damme,' says he, 'you go to him, for you're the man for ...
— The Plays of W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson
... Beadle. He's watchin' somewhere along the cliffs." Mr. Banner waved a hand towards the neck of the headland. "It's a scandal, and by all accounts has been ...
— Lady Good-for-Nothing • A. T. Quiller-Couch


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