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býdel

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Grammar
býdel, l. bydel,
Wright's OE grammar
§225; §341; §563;
and add:
a herald
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  • Hé sende bydelas and beád eallum þám here

    transierunt praecones per castrorum medium et clamare coeperunt,

      Jos. 3, 2.
a beadle, v. Andrews' Old English Manor. pp. 142-3
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  • Bydel gǽð ætforan déman,

      Hml. Th. i. 354, 34 : Shrn. 95, 14.
  • Héte þú

    (Pilate)

    þýnne býdel hym swá ongeán cuman ?,
      Nic. 2, 15.
  • Bydelum

    exactoribus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 30, 43.
  • Sende se cásere his bydelas and beád ꝥ man sceolde cépan crístenra manna,

      Hml. S. 23, 47.
Etymology
[O. L. Ger. budil.]
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