Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of beadle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle.
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- noun The
office of abeadle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship, to the lowest depth of the most snubbed hen – peckery.
Oliver Twist 2007
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He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship, to the lowest depth of the most snubbed hen-peckery.
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1841
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He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship, to the lowest depth of the most snubbed henpeckery.
Oliver Twist 1838
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It appeared that the delinquent had been in the habit of purchasing six penn'orth of muffins, weekly, from an old woman who rents a small house in the parish, and resides among the original settlers; on her last weekly visit, a message was conveyed to her through the medium of the cook, couched in mysterious terms, but indicating with sufficient clearness, that the vestry-clerk's appetite for muffins, in future, depended entirely on her vote on the beadleship.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841
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