beadsman


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beadsman

(ˈbiːdzmən) or

bedesman

n, pl -men
1. (Ecclesiastical Terms) a person who prays for another's soul, esp one paid or fed for doing so
2. (Historical Terms) a person kept in an almshouse
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Noun1.beadsman - a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another
supplicant, prayer - someone who prays to God
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Thom said: "The great thing about our products is they're for anyone, from the career beadsman to Mr Clean Shaven.
The beadsman (one who is paid to pray for others' sins) in the chapel represents someone who seeks truth without beauty.
As I am a beadsman, I give serious thought to the state of your soul.
Although the Giaour is mysteriously generous towards the monastery, "Great largess to these walls he brought", the beadsman finds his presence there oppressive: "But were I Prior, not a day/ Should brook such stranger's further stay" (Selected 193).
Wittgenstein also features prominently in The Broom of the System, where an old woman in a nursing home, Leonore Beadsman, is said to have studied with the philosopher at Cambridge.
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The owl, for all his feathers was a-cold; The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, /And silent was the flock in woolly fold: Numb'd were the Beadsman' fingers." (John Keats) (11) "God is light." (1 John 1:5) Keats's poem uses factors within our experience (being cold) as pointers to something outside our experience (a shepherd's experience on a winter night).
Later in the essay, Lamb describes himself as an "over-looked beadsman" whom the benefactors of the various Oxford colleges smile down on from their picture frames (2.9).
If ever danger do environ thee, Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers, For I will be thy beadsman, Valentine.
The Beads Onyx, plastic, pearl and gold The Beadsman a Thousand Aves told.