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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Bordage :: Bordage (n.) The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
Crouch :: Crouch (v. i.) To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
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..
Servilely :: Servilely (adv.) In a servile manner; slavishly.
Cringe :: Cringe (n.) Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility..
Adulation :: Adulation (n.) Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited..
Subserviently :: Subservient (a.) Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling..
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..
Minion :: Minion (n.) An obsequious or servile dependent or agent of another; a fawning favorite.
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..
Ape :: Ape (v. t.) To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally..
Menial :: Menial (n.) Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
Supparasite :: Supparasitation (n.) The act of flattering to gain favor; servile approbation.
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..
Lackey :: Lackey (v. i.) To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
Fawn :: Fawn (n.) A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.
Servile :: Servile (a.) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter..
Servileness :: Servileness (n.) Quality of being servile; servility.
Drudge :: Drudge (n.) One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant.
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..
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