Definition of servile

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

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Sycophant :: Sycophant (n.) A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men..
Menial :: Menial (n.) A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices..
Menial :: Menial (n.) Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
Abject :: Abject (a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts..
Root :: Root (v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely..
Obeisant :: Obeisant (a.) Ready to obey; reverent; differential; also, servilely submissive..
Servile :: 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..
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..
Adulate :: Adulate (v. t.) To flatter in a servile way.
Creature :: Creature (n.) A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.
Minion :: Minion (n.) An obsequious or servile dependent or agent of another; a fawning favorite.
Parrotry :: Parrotry (n.) Servile imitation or repetition.
Lackey :: Lackey (v. i.) To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
Servile :: Servile (a.) Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
Menial :: Menial (n.) A person of a servile character or disposition.
Adulation :: Adulation (n.) Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited..
Crouch :: Crouch (v. i.) To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
Subserviently :: Subservient (a.) Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling..
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..
Toadyism :: Toadyism (n.) The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.
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