Definition of servile

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

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Root :: Root (v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely..
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..
Menial :: Menial (n.) Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean..
Lackey :: Lackey (v.) An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.
Adulator :: Adulator (n.) A servile or hypocritical flatterer.
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..
Servile :: Servile (n.) An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.
Menial :: Menial (n.) A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices..
Lackey :: Lackey (v. i.) To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
Poking :: Poking (a.) Drudging; servile.
Truckler :: Truckler (n.) One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another..
Uxorial :: Uxorial (a.) Dotingly fond of, or servilely submissive to, a wife; uxorious; also, becoming a wife; pertaining to a wife..
Minion :: Minion (n.) An obsequious or servile dependent or agent of another; a fawning favorite.
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..
Apish :: Apish (a.) Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.
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..
Servile :: Servile (a.) Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune..
Parrotry :: Parrotry (n.) Servile imitation or repetition.
Adulation :: Adulation (n.) Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited..
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