单词 | beadledom |
释义 | beadledomn. The embodiment of the characteristics of beadles as a class; stupid officiousness and ‘red-tapeism’. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > [noun] > officialism or bureaucracy > stupid or ignorant Dogberryism1836 beadledom1860 Dogberrydom1895 1860 Temple Bar 1 80 The defeat of beadledom and vestrydom. 1861 Blackwood's Mag. 732 [Words] which serve to express the relationship supposed to exist between the higher and lower grades of English society. Flunkeyism, plush, beadledom, lordolatry. 1866 Reader 15 Dec. 1006 At present we have too much beadledom on the episcopal bench. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1860 |
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