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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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Ape :: Ape (n.) One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.

Adulatory :: Adulatory (a.) Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address..

Poking :: Poking (a.) Drudging; servile.

Fawn :: Fawn (n.) A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.

Root :: Root (v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely..

Abjectly :: Abjectly (adv.) Meanly; servilely.

Apishly :: Apishly (adv.) In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.

Parrotry :: Parrotry (n.) Servile imitation or repetition.

Slavish :: Slavish (a.) Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great..

Uxorial :: Uxorial (a.) Dotingly fond of, or servilely submissive to, a wife; uxorious; also, becoming a wife; pertaining to a wife..

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

Bordage :: Bordage (n.) The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

Obeisant :: Obeisant (a.) Ready to obey; reverent; differential; also, servilely submissive..

Servile :: Servile (a.) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter..

Servile :: Servile (n.) An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.

Menial :: Menial (n.) A person of a servile character or disposition.

Menial :: Menial (n.) Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.

Ducker :: Ducker (n.) A cringing, servile person; a fawner..

Sycophant :: Sycophant (n.) A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men..

Observance :: Observance (n.) Servile attention; sycophancy.