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Meaning of "bedesman" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BEDESMAN

ˈbiːdzmən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BEDESMAN

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Bedesman is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BEDESMAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Beadsman

Bedesman, or beadsman was generally a pensioner or almsman whose duty it was to pray for his benefactor. In Scotland there were public almsmen supported by the king and expected in return to pray for his welfare and that of the state. These men wore long blue gowns with a pewter badge on the right arm, and were nicknamed Blue Gowns. Their number corresponded to the king's years, an extra one being added each royal birthday. They were privileged to ask alms throughout Scotland. On the king's birthday each bedesman received a new blue gown, a loaf, a bottle of ale, and a leathern purse containing a penny for every year of the king's life. On the pewter badge which they wore were their name and the words "pass and repass," which authorized them to ask alms. The last beadsman died in Aberdeen in 1988. In consequence of its use in this general sense of pensioner, "bedesman" was long used in English as equivalent to "servant." The word had a special sense as the name for those almsmen attached to cathedrals and other churches, whose duty it was to pray for the souls of deceased benefactors.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BEDESMAN

backswordsman · backwoodsman · backwoodsmen · bandsman · beadsman · bondsman · coastguardsman · fraudsman · groundsman · guardsman · headsman · herdsman · landsman · ombudsman · seedsman · swordsman · thirdsman · tidesman · tradesman · woodsman

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BEDESMAN

bedding out · bedding plant · Beddoes · Bede · bedeafen · bedeck · bedecked · bedeguar · bedel · bedell · bedellship · bedelship · bedesmen · bedevil · bedevilled · bedevilling · bedevilment · bedew · bedfast · bedfellow

WORDS THAT END LIKE BEDESMAN

bluesman · brakesman · businessman · dalesman · desman · elder statesman · estatesman · gamesman · islesman · linesman · meresman · plainclothesman · salesman · sharesman · sidesman · spokesman · statesman · talesman · travelling salesman · tribesman · used-car salesman

Synonyms and antonyms of bedesman in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Bedesman
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BEDESMAN»

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Bedesman 4
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Skrine Mary Jessie Hammond Tooke, 2009
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Bedesman
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Mary Jessie Hammond Tooke Skrine, 2010
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The Bedesman on Nidsyde
In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind.
Robert Riddell, 2010
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Pragmatic Utopias: Ideals and Communities, 1200–1630
A bedesman, says clause 5, was to be poor, clean, and gracious of living; he was , says clause 78, to be meek in spirit, poor in temporal goods 'that without relief beyond his own goods he shall not competently live', chaste in body, and 'of good  ...
Rosemary Horrox, Sarah Rees Jones, 2001
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The Works
said the warden, thinking he perceived the real state of things ; " what I propose is this. You shall go into old Dobson's house at once, as a kind of probationary bedesman. I'll write to Harry, and get your character from him. Stephen Freeman I  ...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Scott's New Reports in the Court of Common Pleas and ...
Burleigh Hospital is a free, hold building, divided into rooms, each of which is of the annual value of 4/., and is separately inhabited by a bedesman, appointed under certain rules. Each bedesman keeps the successor of each deceased ...
John Scott, 1845
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Faith and Fabric: A History of Rochester Cathedral, 604-1994
In the late seventeenth century or early eighteenth century some of them sometimes came to the cathedral to sign for their money, but by the 1740s only one bedesman, Lebbeus Ford, still did so, and when he gave up the practice in 1748 ...
Nigel Yates, Paul A. Welsby, 1996
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The Long Way
Bedesman. settled sinking reeling feeling simply being sadness feeling my lover my baby my happy my crazy my don't know why why did you fly why won't you come why do i try why am i dumb does this go on do i exist come back to me do ...
Marcy Jarvis, 2003
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The Gest of Robyn Hode: A Critical and Textual Commentary
*2' Stanza 369/Line 1473 M The forester offers to be the king's ledes-man, i.e. guide, leader, in bf (g spells it “lodesman“), but Knight/Ohlgren emend this to “ bedesman” (a “beads-man,“ hence “one who prays” or uses the rosary; Langland / ...
Robert B. Waltz
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The Edinburgh magazine, or Literary miscellany
Bedesman. on. Nith-stdc. A FRAGMENT. THE night was mirk, fast fell the weit, And rudely r.ig'd the blast, Wi fearsom glent through the black lift, The awsume lightning pass'd. The Lins loud roaring down the Glens Swall'd Nith frae bank to brae ...

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BEDESMAN»

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Airman, alderman, bailsman, bandsman, bandyman, anksman, bargeman, Batman, beadsman, bedesman, busman, boardman, boatsman, ... «RenewAmerica, Apr 13»
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