Post by t-bob on Aug 16, 2019 10:17:29 GMT -5
noun
1. a gratuitous or officious display or exercise of authority, as by petty officials.
Quotes
... I shall endeavor to limit the occupation of the Beadle of Golden Square to pure beadledom, by prohibiting him from waiting at the evening parties of the trustees, and beating the door-mats of the inhabitants. -- Editors, "Punch for Parliament," Punch, Vol. 13, 1847 The music of beadledom has an attire uniformly officious, sublimely unmeaning. -- "The Decadence of Church Music," The Musical Standard, No. 428, Vol. 3, October 12, 1872
Origin
Beadledom, “a gratuitous or officious display or exercise of authority, as by petty officials,” is a compound of beadle and the noun suffix -dom. In Old English a býdel meant “a herald, proclaimer, preacher,” from an original Germanic budilaz “a herald,” akin to Old High German butyl and German Büttel “bailiff, beadle.” The Germanic word was adopted into Romance, becoming bidello in Italian, bedel in Spanish and Old French, and bidellus or bedellus in Medieval Latin. Nowadays a beadle is a minor officer in a parish who acts as an usher and maintains order during services, a sense the word has had since the late 16th century. The Middle English forms, such as budel, beodel, bidell (deriving from Old English býdel), were gradually replaced by French bedel beginning in the early 14th century; the modern spelling beadle dates from the early 17th century. The abstract noun suffix -dom, indicating a state or condition, as in wisdóm “wisdom” and cyningdóm “kingdom,” is akin to Old English and Old Saxon -dóm, German -tum (as in Heiligtum “sanctuary, shrine, relic”), and was originally an independent noun meaning “putting, position, stature, judgment," a derivative of the verb do. Beadledom entered English in the 1840sLe
1. a gratuitous or officious display or exercise of authority, as by petty officials.
Quotes
... I shall endeavor to limit the occupation of the Beadle of Golden Square to pure beadledom, by prohibiting him from waiting at the evening parties of the trustees, and beating the door-mats of the inhabitants. -- Editors, "Punch for Parliament," Punch, Vol. 13, 1847 The music of beadledom has an attire uniformly officious, sublimely unmeaning. -- "The Decadence of Church Music," The Musical Standard, No. 428, Vol. 3, October 12, 1872
Origin
Beadledom, “a gratuitous or officious display or exercise of authority, as by petty officials,” is a compound of beadle and the noun suffix -dom. In Old English a býdel meant “a herald, proclaimer, preacher,” from an original Germanic budilaz “a herald,” akin to Old High German butyl and German Büttel “bailiff, beadle.” The Germanic word was adopted into Romance, becoming bidello in Italian, bedel in Spanish and Old French, and bidellus or bedellus in Medieval Latin. Nowadays a beadle is a minor officer in a parish who acts as an usher and maintains order during services, a sense the word has had since the late 16th century. The Middle English forms, such as budel, beodel, bidell (deriving from Old English býdel), were gradually replaced by French bedel beginning in the early 14th century; the modern spelling beadle dates from the early 17th century. The abstract noun suffix -dom, indicating a state or condition, as in wisdóm “wisdom” and cyningdóm “kingdom,” is akin to Old English and Old Saxon -dóm, German -tum (as in Heiligtum “sanctuary, shrine, relic”), and was originally an independent noun meaning “putting, position, stature, judgment," a derivative of the verb do. Beadledom entered English in the 1840sLe
