beadle
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1. beadle - Noun
3. Beadle - Proper noun
Meaning
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.
An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students.
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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Literature is open to everybody. I refuse to allow you, Beadle though you are, to turn me off the grass. Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Poetry's unnat'ral no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.
The beadle of the parish is always of the vicar's opinion.
Beadle said the doctor and defense attorney urged him to say that he had committed the crime in self-defense.
Dr. Dreher said, “I had told Beadle that LeBouef had threatened us and Beadle said he would see to it that LeBouef would not be able to do any harm.”
Beadle says is important for people to seek the advice of an independent broker and compare at least three different medical aid policies.