Definition of servile

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Servile (a.) Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune..

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Minion :: Minion (n.) An obsequious or servile dependent or agent of another; a fawning favorite.
Menial :: Menial (n.) A person of a servile character or disposition.
Apishly :: Apishly (adv.) In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.
Sycophant :: Sycophant (n.) A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men..
Crawl :: Crawl (v. i.) To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
Obsequious :: Obsequious (a.) Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite..
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..
Ducker :: Ducker (n.) A cringing, servile person; a fawner..
Servility :: Servility (n.) The quality or state of being servile; servileness.
Observance :: Observance (n.) Servile attention; sycophancy.
Dig :: Dig (v. i.) To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
Bordage :: Bordage (n.) The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
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..
Servile :: Servile (a.) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter..
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..
Ape :: Ape (v. t.) To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally..
Servile :: Servile (a.) Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune..
Labor :: Labor (n.) To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil..
Villain :: Villain (n.) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant..
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..
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