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bedell

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  • noun obsolete Alternative spelling of beadle.

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  • "Nation" had a procurator, a treasurer, and a bedell, the last to look after the legal affairs of the association.

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

  • “Nation” had a procurator, a treasurer, and a bedell, the last to look after the legal affairs of the association.

    William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913

  • From words they passed to blows; the bedell and vergers tried to keep order, but "were buffeted and stricken," [339] and the meeting broke up in wild uproar and confusion.

    The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856

  • [446] Henry Gunning (1768-1854) was senior esquire bedell of Cambridge.

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

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