2. Noun. Stupid or senseless officiousness. ¹
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Definition of Beadledom
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beadledom
Literary usage of Beadledom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Experiences in Australia: Being Recollections of a Visit to the by Lady, Allan Macpherson (1860)
"... temperature— Australian children—Their precocity in every respect—Resemblance
to Americans—Sydney society—beadledom at the antipodes—The squatters—The ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"beadledom IN DANGER. THE following alarming placard has been posted on the walls,
the pumps, the pound, and other parochial property of a place called ..."
3. Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine by Douglas William Jerrold (1846)
"Fudge," said beadledom, "that's nothing to do o' this pint o' Sunday shoes and
frocks." " Well, as you insist on bleeding a post," helped Shuttle, ..."
4. National Missions: A Series of Lectures by William Maccall (1855)
"Yes, for two hundred years England has been ruled like a parish vestry instead
of like a foremost realm of the globe. beadledom has flourished in Parliament ..."
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