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Beadle

Beadle Meaning & Definition
Beadle Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Beadle?

[n] a minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves order at services
[n] United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Beadle: George Beadle | George Wells Beadle

Related Terms | Find terms related to Beadle: acolyte | almoner | anagnost | bailiff | beagle | bedral | Bible clerk | Bible reader | bound bailiff | capitular | capitulary | captain | catchpole | chief of police | choir chaplain | churchwarden | clerk | commissioner | constable | deacon | deaconess | deputy | deputy sheriff | detective | elder | elderman | fed | federal | flic | gendarme | G-man | government man | inspector | lay elder | lay reader | lector | lecturer | lictor | lieutenant | mace-bearer | marshal | mounted policeman | MP | narc | officer | parish clerk | patrolman | peace officer | police captain | police commissioner | police constable | police inspector | police matron | police officer | police sergeant | policeman | policewoman | portreeve | precentor | reader | reeve | roundsman | ruling elder | sacrist | sacristan | sergeant | sergeant at arms | sexton | shames | sheriff | sidesman | succentor | suisse | superintendent | teaching elder | thurifer | tipstaff | tipstaves | trooper | verger | vergeress

See Also | biologist | functionary | life scientist | official

Beadle In Webster's Dictionary

\Bea"dle\, n. [OE. bedel, bidel, budel, OF. bedel, F. bedeau, fr. OHG. butil, putil, G. b["u]ttel, fr. OHG. biotan, G. bieten, to bid, confused with AS. bydel, the same word as OHG. butil. See. {Bid}, v.] 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. [Eng.] Note: 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.

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