beadleship

noun

Etymology

From beadle + -ship.

  1. inherited from *budilaz
  2. inherited from *budil
  3. inherited from bydel
  4. inherited from bedel
  5. suffixed as beadleship — “beadle + ship

Definitions

  1. The office or jurisdiction of a beadle.

    • He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship to the lowest depth of the most snubbed hen-peckery.

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