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beadle
1[ beed-l ]
noun
- a parish officer having various subordinate duties, as keeping order during services, waiting on the rector, etc.
Beadle
2[ beed-l ]
noun
- George Wells, 1903–1989, U.S. biologist and educator: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1958.
Beadle
1/ ˈːə /
noun
- BeadleGeorge Wells19031989MUSSCIENCE: biologist George Wells . 1903–89, US biologist, who shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1958 for his work in genetics
beadle
2/ ˈːə /
noun
- (formerly, in the Church of England) a minor parish official who acted as an usher and kept order
- (in Scotland) a church official attending on the minister
- Judaism a synagogue attendant See also shammes
- an official in certain British universities and other institutions
Derived Forms
- ˈ, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- ܲ·d noun
- ܲd·d noun
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of beadle1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of beadle1
Example Sentences
And the vengeance Sweeney seeks here feels as much political — a rebellion against elites, like judges and beadles — as personal.
Johnny knew when his own case would soon be called because he heard the Justice tell a beadle to run down to Long Wharf and tell Merchant Lyte to present himself in half an hour.
Then Soames reappeared and plodded about like a parish beadle, backing down the steam radiator valves.
The Sergeant-at-Arms might appoint a beadle to bridle the tongues of the everlasting talkers, and an official with a large extinguisher should make them harmless after they had bored the House for five minutes.
The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle.
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