Definition of "beadledom" []

• Beadles collectively, and their characteristics as a class. (noun)
• Stupid or senseless officiousness. (noun)

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• "Constable, and in fact it was the day duty which embraced the peculiar dignity of beadledom."
• "At the time I speak of Knox was the Recorder of that important borough, and was possessed of all the dignity which so enhances a great officer in the eyes of the public, whether he be the most modest of beadles in beadledom, or the highest Recorder in Christendom."
• "(Wisla) I prowled about among the crypts with a curious specimen of beadledom who ran off long unintelligible histories in atrocious"