The word "beadle" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a minor parish official or a person who helps maintain order in a church or school setting.
Example: "The beadle announced the start of the ceremony with a loud voice."
Alternatives: "usher" or "sexton."
Time magazine devoted an essay to it, likening the judge to the "rascal beadle" of King Lear ("Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back").
In Vienna, Clark notes, "a 1556 decree provided for paying two individuals to keep daily notes on lecturers and professors"; in Marburg, from 1564 on, the university beadle kept a list of skipped lectures and gave it, quarterly, to the rector, who imposed fines.
Shlemiel, its eponymous beadle hero (Michael Iannucci), is a "crazy fool," according to his wife (Amy Warren).
A "shamash" is a servant, usually the person who looks after the synagogue, and there is something about personifying this humble candle as a beadle that amused me as a child.
One of the most commanding sights in Rouen, this towering flamboyant Gothic church with its lacy stonework has not only been masterfully portrayed by Flaubert (complete with a historical tour given by a beadle, an "everlasting guide," to Madame Bovary and her soon-to-be lover) but also by such disparate painters as Claude Monet and Roy Lichtenstein.
As Mr Beadle recounts Mr Covington's experiences, he lurches from wild agitation to jittery submission.
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He started teaching at the age of eighteen, and in 1938 he got a job teaching in Huron, South Dakota, in Beadle County.
Molecular genetics did not begin in earnest until 1941 when American geneticist George Beadle and American biochemist Edward Tatum showed that the genes they were studying in the fungus Neurospora crassa acted by coding for catalytic proteins called enzymes.
