† vadelectn.
Obsolete.
A servant, serving-man.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > man or boy
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handman1496
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Sim Shakebuckler?1560
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vadelect1586
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1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 161 The same French king, for want of a Hereald.., was constrained to subbornate a vadelict, or common seruing-man.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 156 But if the sherife be a Vadelect of the crowne or other meniall seruant of the King, there the challenge is good.
1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Vadelet or Vadelect..signifies a servant, and is used in the accounts of the Inner Temple, for a Benchers Clerk or Servant.
Derivatives
vadelet n. (also vadlet) archaic
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > man or boy
knightc950
knapec1000
shalkOE
knaveOE
sergeantc1200
swainc1275
groom1297
garcion13..
ladc1300
harlota1350
serving-mana1400
manservant1409
varlet1483
handman1496
custrelinga1556
Sim Shakebuckler?1560
lackey-boy1575
vadelect1586
muchacho1591
round robin1591
varlettoa1616
vadelet1661
gossoon1684
skip1699
mozo1811
Jack1836
tea-boy1847
John1848
1661 [see main sense].
1813 Williams Law of Clergy 398 The King as founder of..many religious houses had a corrody for his vadelets, and a pension for a chaplain.
1861 H. T. Riley tr. Liber Albus 40 As soon as the Sheriffs are sworn, all the Servants of their office—clerks, serjeants and their vadlets..—shall also be sworn.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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