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- Beadle - v. - 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.
- Beadle - v. - An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students.
- Beadle - v. - 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.
- Beadlery - n. - Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.
- Beadleship - n. - The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle.