different between beadle vs deacon

English

Alternative forms

• bedel, bedell (obsolete)
• bedral, bethral, betherel (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English bedel, bidel, from Old English bydel (“warrant officer, apparitor”), from Proto-Germanic *budilaz (“herald”), equivalent to bid +? -le. Cognate with Dutch beul, German Büttel. More at bid.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [?bi?d??]
• Rhymes: -i?d?l

Noun

beadle (plural beadles)

1. a parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order
2. (Scotland, ecclesiastic) an attendant to the minister
3. a warrant officer

Quotations

• 1789, William Blake, "Holy Thursday"

Twas on a holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,

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.

• 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 11:

  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.

• 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 8

  His face expressed horror and indignation. Instinct rather than reason came to my help; he was a Beadle; I was a woman.

Derived terms

• beadledom
• beadleism
• beadlery
• beadleship

Translations

Anagrams

• Bedale, bealed, bedeal, belead

English

Etymology

From Old English diacon, from Ecclesiastical Latin diaconus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (di??konos, “servant, minister”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: dea?con
• enPR: d?'k(?)n, IPA^(key): /?di?k?n/
• Rhymes: -i?k?n

Noun

deacon (plural deacons)

1. (Church history) A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
2. (Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.
3. (Protestantism) Free Churches: A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.
4. (Protestantism) Anglicanism: An ordained clergyman usually serving a year prior to being ordained presbyter, though in some cases they remain a permanent deacon.
5. (Protestantism) Methodism: A separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate.
6. (freemasonry) A junior lodge officer.
7. (Mormonism) The lowest office in the Aaronic priesthood, generally held by 12 or 13 year old boys or recent converts.
8. (US, animal husbandry) A male calf of a dairy breed, so called because they are usually deaconed (see below).
9. (Scotland) The chairman of an incorporated company.

Hyponyms

• (Catholic): permanent deacon, transitional deacon

Coordinate terms

• deaconess

Derived terms

Related terms

• diaconal
• diaconate

Translations

See also

• deacon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• diaconate

Verb

deacon (third-person singular simple present deacons, present participle deaconing, simple past and past participle deaconed)

1. (Christianity, music) For a choir leader to lead a hymn by speaking one or two lines at a time, which are then sung by the choir.
2. (US, animal husbandry) To kill a calf shortly after birth.
3. (US, slang) To place fresh fruit at the top of a barrel or other container, with spoiled or imperfect fruit hidden beneath.

4. (US, slang) To make sly alterations to the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc.

Anagrams

• Canedo, Cedano, acnode, canoed