beadle

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order.
    — Twas on a holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, The children walking two and two in red and blue and green: Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow, Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.
  2. An attendant to the minister. Scotland
  3. A warrant officer.

词形变化

beadles plural bedel alternative,obsolete bedell alternative,obsolete bedral alternative,Scotland bethral alternative,Scotland betherel alternative,Scotland

词汇关系

衍生词
beadledom beadlehood beadleism beadlery beadleship beagle subbeadle underbeadle

词源

From Middle English bedel, bidel, from Old English bydel (“warrant officer, apparitor”), from Proto-West Germanic *budil, from Proto-Germanic *budilaz (“herald”), equivalent to bid + -le. Cognate with Dutch beul, German Büttel. More at bid.
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