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beadle 音標拼音: [b'idəl] n. 小吏,游行領隊 小吏,遊行領隊 beadle n 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) [ synonym: { Beadle}, { George Beadle}, { George Wells Beadle}] 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}. [ 1913 Webster] 2. An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students. [ Eng.] [ 1913 Webster] Note: In this sense the archaic spellings bedel ( Oxford) and bedell ( Cambridge) are preserved. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 81 Moby Thesaurus words for " beadle": Bible clerk, Bible reader, G- man, MP, acolyte, almoner, anagnost, bailiff, beagle, bedral, bound bailiff, capitular, capitulary, captain, catchpole, chief of police, choir chaplain, churchwarden, clerk, commissioner, constable, deacon, deaconess, deputy, deputy sheriff, detective, elder, elderman, fed, federal, flic, gendarme, government man, inspector, lay elder, lay reader, lector, lecturer, lictor, lieutenant, mace- bearer, marshal, mounted policeman, narc, officer, parish clerk, patrolman, peace officer, police captain, police commissioner, police constable, police inspector, police matron, police officer, police sergeant, policeman, policewoman, portreeve, precentor, reader, reeve, roundsman, ruling elder, sacrist, sacristan, sergeant, sergeant at arms, sexton, shames, sheriff, sidesman, succentor, suisse, superintendent, teaching elder, thurifer, tipstaff, tipstaves, trooper, verger, vergeress
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