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bedesman

NOUN
  1. a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another

How To Use bedesman In A Sentence

  • When the bedesman had pray'd and the dead bell rung, Kilmeny
  • The grasp of old Ochiltree, who had appeared on the scene, roused Lovel to movement, and leaving M'Intyre to the care of a surgeon, he followed the bedesman into the recesses of the wood, in order to get away by boat the following morning. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction
  • When the bedesman had prayed and the dead-bell rung; Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls
  • It was in vain that the late warden endeavoured to comfort the heart of the old bedesman; poor old Bunce felt that his days of comfort were gone. The Warden
  • ‘I was only coming to ask after your reverence,’ said the old bedesman, touching his hat; ‘and to inquire about the news from London,’ he added after a pause. The Warden
  • When the bedesman had pray’d and the dead bell rung, Kilmeny
  • They take field after field, house after house; turn the farmer into the beggar, and the beggar into their bedesman. The King's Achievement
  • A medieval underling writing to his superior often signs himself "your servant and bedesman. The Romance of Names
  • Then young Madden showed all the whole affair and said how that she was dead and how for holy religion sake by rede of palmer and bedesman and for a vow he had made to Saint Ultan of Ulysses
  • Madden showed all the whole affair and said how that she was dead and how for holy religion sake by rede of palmer and bedesman and for a vow he had made to Saint Ultan of Arbraccan her goodman husband would not let her death whereby they were all wondrous grieved. Ulysses
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