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Record 1 1985-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Education (General)
DEF

in the English universities ... the name of certain officials ... having various functions as executive officers of the University. Their duties are chiefly processional: at Oxford there are four, the junior or sub-bedel being the official attendant of the Vice-chancellor, before whom he bears a silver staff or mace; at Cambridge there are two, called esquire-bedells, both of whom officially walk in front of the Vice-Chancellor with maces.

OBS

bedel; bedell: archaic forms of beadle, officially retained in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Pédagogie (Généralités)
DEF

huissier, porteur d'une masse d'argent ou de plomb, et qui précédait le roi, le chancelier, le corps de l'Université, etc.

Spanish

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