English Dictionary

beadle

IPA（発音記号）

[ˈbiːdəɫ]

名詞

スコットランド英語

A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order. / (Scotland, ecclesiastic) An attendant to the minister. / A warrant officer.

日本語の意味

教区の警備員、制服を着た下級の役人で、案内や秩序の維持を担う者 / （スコットランド、教会において）牧師の補佐または付添い役 / 令状を持つ役務者、または准官

The beadle in his brass-buttoned uniform tapped the hymnbook to call the congregation to order before the vicar began.

真鍮のボタンが付いた制服を着た教区の小役人が、司祭が礼拝を始める前に会衆を整えるために讃美歌の本を軽く打った。

意味（1）

A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order.

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. 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 11, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans,[…], published 1853, OCLC 999756093: 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.

意味（2）

(Scotland, ecclesiastic) An attendant to the minister.

意味（3）

A warrant officer.

beadles （ plural ）