单词 | esquire bedels |
释义 | > as lemmasesquire bedels a. spec. in the English universities (at present conventionally spelt bedel, -ell,) the name of certain officials, formerly of two ranks distinguished as esquire bedels and yeomen bedels, having various functions as executive officers of the University. Their duties are now chiefly processional: at Oxford there are four, the junior- or sub-bedel being the official attendant of the Vice-chancellor, before whom he bears a silver staff or mace; at Cambridge there are two, called esquire-bedells, both of whom officially walk in front of the Vice-chancellor with maces. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > ceremonial officials > [noun] > usher > mace-bearer > in universities beadlea1400 poker1841 poker-bearer1844 society > authority > office > holder of office > official of royal or great household > [noun] > esquire > specific esquire trenchant1563 esquire bedels1637 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 12914 Als bedel gais be-for iustis. 1562 Petition in J. Strype Ann. Reformation I. i. xxx. 342 The beadles and other officers, belonging to either of the Universities. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1146/1 One of the bedels named maister Adams, came weeping to him, & praied him to shift for himselfe. 1637 W. Laud Let. 26 May in Remains (1770) II. 132 If the University would..bring in some Bachelors of Art to be Yeomen-Bedels, which are well grounded and towardly to serve that Press, as Composers..they..might after be preferred to be Esq; Bedels. a1763 W. Shenstone Odes (1765) 206 When college-students take degrees, And pay the beadle's endless fees. 1797 Cambr. Univ. Cal. 143 Esquire Bedells. The Bedells are officers for life, they must be men of learning, and have taken the degree of A.M. 1826–7 Act 7 & 8 Geo. IV lxxv, in Enactments Parl. conc. Univ. Oxf. & Cambr. (1869) 144 The Proctors and Bedels for the time being. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 280 The registrar and bedells waited on Francis. < as lemmas |
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