Definition of servile

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

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Servile :: Servile (a.) Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
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..
Lackey :: Lackey (v. i.) To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
Bordage :: Bordage (n.) The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
Menial :: Menial (n.) Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
Parrotry :: Parrotry (n.) Servile imitation or repetition.
Observance :: Observance (n.) Servile attention; sycophancy.
Creature :: Creature (n.) A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.
Subserviently :: Subservient (a.) Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling..
Abject :: Abject (a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts..
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..
Supparasite :: Supparasitation (n.) The act of flattering to gain favor; servile approbation.
Pleaseman :: Pleaseman (n.) An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank.
Servile :: Servile (n.) An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.
Servilely :: Servilely (adv.) In a servile manner; slavishly.
Ape :: Ape (v. t.) To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally..
Adulate :: Adulate (v. t.) To flatter in a servile way.
Truckler :: Truckler (n.) One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another..
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..
Menial :: Menial (n.) A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices..
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