Bedel vs Bedew - What's the difference?
bedel | bedew |
An administrative official at universities in several European countries, often with a policiary function at the time when universities had their own jurisdiction over students.
To make wet with or as if with dew.
* 1885:
* 1836 , (Eliza Cook), ""
*:I LOVE it, I love it ; and who shall dare
*:To chide me for loving that old Arm-chair ?
*:I've treasured it long as a sainted prize ;
*:I've bedewed it with tears, and embalmed it with sighs.
* 1831 , (Mary Shelley),
*:Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun which bestowed such joy upon me.
As a noun bedel
is {{cx|historical|lang=en}} An administrative official at universities in several European countries, often with a policiary function at the time when universities had their own jurisdiction over students.As a verb bedew is
to make wet with or as if with dew.bedel
English
Noun
(en noun)- Oxford today has four bedels , representing Divinity, Law, Medicine, and Arts.
bedew
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Verb
(en verb)- While sympathetic tears
- My cheeks bedew