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noun

Beadle 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.

An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students. (Eng.) Note: In this sense the archaic spellings bedel (Oxford) and bedell (Cambridge) are preserved.

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.

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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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