beadleとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English bedel, bidel, from 古期英語 bydel (“warrant officer, apparitor”), from Proto-Germanic *budilaz (“herald”), equivalent to bid +‎ -le. Cognate with Dutch beul, German Büttel. More at bid.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): [ˈbiːdəɫ]
• 韻: -iːdəl

名詞

beadle (複数形 beadles)

1. a parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order
2. (Scotland, ecclesiastic) an attendant to the minister
3. a warrant officer

引用

• 1789, William Blake, "Holy Thursday"

Twas on a holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,

The children walking two and two in red and blue and green:

Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,

Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.

• 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 11:

  The beadle ... generally understood in the neighbourhood to be a ridiculous institution ... The policeman considers him an imbecile civilian, a remnant of the barbarous watchmen times, but gives him admission as something that must be borne with until government shall abolish him.

• 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 8

  His face expressed horror and indignation. Instinct rather than reason came to my help; he was a Beadle; I was a woman.

派生語

• beadledom
• beadleism
• beadlery
• beadleship

アナグラム

• Bedale, bealed, bedeal, belead