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bea⋅dle
[beed-l] 
–noun
| 1. | a parish officer having various subordinate duties, as keeping order during services, waiting on the rector, etc. |
| 2. | sexton (def. 2). |
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME bedel, dial. (SE) var. of bidel, OE bydel apparitor, herald (c. G Büttel), equiv. to bud- (weak s. of bēodan to command) + -il n. suffix
bef. 1000; ME bedel, dial. (SE) var. of bidel, OE bydel apparitor, herald (c. G Büttel), equiv. to bud- (weak s. of bēodan to command) + -il n. suffix
Bea⋅dle
[beed-l] –noun
| George Wells, 1903–1989, U.S. biologist and educator: Nobel prize for medicine 1958. |
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| bea·dle (bēd'l) n. A minor parish official formerly employed in an English church to usher and keep order during services. [Middle English bedel, herald (from Old English bydel) and from Old French bedel (from Medieval Latin bedellus, from Old High German butil; see bheudh- in Indo-European roots).] |
| Bea·dle (bēd'l) American biologist. He shared a 1958 Nobel Prize for discovering how genes transmit hereditary characteristics. |
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Beadle
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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beadle
O.E. bydel "herald, messenger from an authority," from beodan "to proclaim" (see bid). Sense of "warrant officer, tipstaff" was in late O.E.; that of "petty parish officer," which has given the job a bad reputation, is from 1594.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Beadle Bea·dle (bēd'l), George Wells. 1903-1989.
American biologist. He shared a 1958 Nobel Prize for discovering how genes transmit hereditary characteristics.
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