Definition of service

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Service (n.) Office of devotion; official religious duty performed; religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial; as, a burial service..

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Camail :: Camail (n.) a hood worn in church services, -- the amice, or the like..
Devoir :: Devoir (n.) Duty; service owed; hence, due act of civility or respect; -- now usually in the plural; as, they paid their devoirs to the ladies..
Veteran :: Veteran (n.) One who has been long exercised in any service or art, particularly in war; one who has had..
Chaplain :: Chaplain (n.) An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel..
Soldier :: Soldier (n.) One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.
Frigid :: Frigid (a.) Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service..
Tender :: Tender (n.) An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest..
Scutage :: Scutage (n.) Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See Escuage.
Chivalry :: Chivalry (n.) A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord..
Post :: Post (v. t.) To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like..
Patriotic :: Patriotic (a.) Inspired by patriotism; actuated by love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country; as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance..
Fee :: Fee (v. t.) To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe..
Entertain :: Entertain (v. t.) To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.
Register :: Register (n.) To enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service..
Ewry :: Ewry (n.) An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept.
Responsory :: Responsory (n.) The answer of the people to the priest in alternate speaking, in church service..
Wage :: Wage (v. t.) That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.
Surfoot :: Surfman (n.) One who serves in a surfboat in the life-saving service.
Pension :: Pension (v. t.) To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant..
Mercenary :: Mercenary (n.) One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service..
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