Definition of Bedel

1. n. Same as Beadle.

Definition of Bedel

1. an English university officer [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedel

bedeafened
bedeafening
bedeafens
bedeal
bedeck
bedecked
bedecked(p)
bedecking
bedecks
bedeem
bedeen
bedeguar
bedeguars
bedehouse
bedehouses
bedel (current term)
bedell
bedells
bedelries
bedelry
bedels
bedelve
bedeman
bedemen
beden
bederal
bederals
bederite
bedes
bedesman

Literary usage of Bedel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of by Ezra Scollay Stearns, William Frederick Whitcher, Edward Everett Parker, Lewis Publishing Company, Lewis publishing company, Chicago (1908)
"Colonel bedel for a time suffered in military circles by reason of this affair, ... Colonel bedel returned to Haverhill and was in communication with ..."

2. The Central Tian-Shan Mountains 1902-1903 by Gottfried Merzbacher (1905)
"Not wishing to follow the well- known caravan route running through the steppe to the bedel valley, which would have added nothing to my knowledge, ..."

3. History of the Campaign for the Conquest of Canada in 1776: From the Death by Charles Henry Jones (1882)
"LATE in April, General Arnold ordered Colonel Timothy bedel, with about three hundred and ninety men of his own New Hampshire and Burrell's Connecticut ..."

4. History of Haverhill, N. H. by John Quincy Bittinger (1888)
"... Bacon Brothers — Barstow Brothers:Alfred, Anson, Gardner— George Barstow—John Barstow — Mary Barstow — Hazen bedel — John bedel—James W. Bell — John ..."

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