Definition of servile

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Servile (a.) Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience..

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Labor :: Labor (n.) Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work..
Uxorial :: Uxorial (a.) Dotingly fond of, or servilely submissive to, a wife; uxorious; also, becoming a wife; pertaining to a wife..
Sycophant :: Sycophant (n.) A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men..
Sorehon :: Sorehon (n.) Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel..
Obsequious :: Obsequious (a.) Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite..
Obeisant :: Obeisant (a.) Ready to obey; reverent; differential; also, servilely submissive..
Liberal :: Liberal (a.) Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies..
Adulatory :: Adulatory (a.) Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address..
Root :: Root (v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely..
Menial :: Menial (n.) A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices..
Truckler :: Truckler (n.) One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another..
Servilely :: Servilely (adv.) In a servile manner; slavishly.
Toadyism :: Toadyism (n.) The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.
Menial :: Menial (n.) Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
Rep-silver :: Rep-silver (n.) Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain..
Drudge :: Drudge (n.) One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant.
Abject :: Abject (a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts..
Servileness :: Servileness (n.) Quality of being servile; servility.
Vernile :: Vernile (a.) Suiting a salve; servile; obsequious.
Bordage :: Bordage (n.) The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
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