BEADLE

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

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Proper noun

Beadle

A surname for a court official.

Anagrams

• Bedale, bealed, bedeal, belead

Etymology

Noun

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

Anagrams

• Bedale, bealed, bedeal, belead

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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