Bĕth'le-hem-ite or Bĕth'lem-ite, n.

n. 1. An insane person; a madman; a bedlamite. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an order of monks, in the 13th century, who dressed like the Dominicans, except that they wore a star with five rays, in memory of the comet or star which appeared over Bethlehem at the nativity of our Savior. Encyc. Brit.