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–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 béodan to command) + -il n. suffix]
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George Wells, 1903–1989, U.S. biologist and educator: Nobel prize for medicine 1958.
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bea·dle    Audio Help   (bēd'l)  Pronunciation Key 
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).]

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Bea·dle    Audio Help   (bēd'l)  Pronunciation Key 
American biologist. He shared a 1958 Nobel Prize for discovering how genes transmit hereditary characteristics.

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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.

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beadle

noun
1. a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function 
2. United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989) 

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Beadle County, SD (county, FIPS 5) Location: 44.41206 N, 98.27802 W
Population (1990): 18253 (8093 housing units)
Area: 3261.9 sq km (land), 14.3 sq km (water)

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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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