Definitions for: Beadle

[n] a minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves order at services
[n] United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989)

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

2. An officer in a university, who precedes public
processions of officers and students. [Eng.]

Note: In this sense the archaic spellings bedel (Oxford) and
bedell (Cambridge) are preserved.

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.

Synonyms: George Beadle, George Wells Beadle

See Also: biologist, functionary, life scientist, official

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