Definition of servile

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

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Abjectly :: Abjectly (adv.) Meanly; servilely.
Servile :: Servile (n.) An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.
Servileness :: Servileness (n.) Quality of being servile; servility.
Apish :: Apish (a.) Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.
Ape :: Ape (n.) One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.
Crawl :: Crawl (v. i.) To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
Bordage :: Bordage (n.) The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
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..
Lackey :: Lackey (v. i.) To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
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..
Adulator :: Adulator (n.) A servile or hypocritical flatterer.
Adulate :: Adulate (v. t.) To flatter in a servile way.
Fawn :: Fawn (n.) A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.
Ducker :: Ducker (n.) A cringing, servile person; a fawner..
Servile :: Servile (a.) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter..
Obeisant :: Obeisant (a.) Ready to obey; reverent; differential; also, servilely submissive..
Root :: Root (v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely..
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..
Subserviently :: Subservient (a.) Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling..
Truckler :: Truckler (n.) One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another..
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