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subbeadle

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bea⋅dle

  [beed-l]
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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 bēodan to command) + -il n. suffix
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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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Medical Dictionary

Beadle Bea·dle (bēd'l), George Wells. 1903-1989.

American biologist. He shared a 1958 Nobel Prize for discovering how genes transmit hereditary characteristics.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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