beadle
(noun) a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function
Beadle, George Beadle, George Wells Beadle
(noun) United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Beadle
A surname for a court official.
• Bedale, bealed, bedeal, belead
beadle (plural beadles)
a parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order
(Scotland, ecclesiastic) an attendant to the minister
a warrant officer
• Bedale, bealed, bedeal, belead
Source: Wiktionary
Bea"dle, n. Etym: [OE. bedel, bidel, budel, OF. bedel, F. bedeau, fr. OHG. butil, putil, G. büttel, 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 January 2025
(noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
