In my time a servant was I one.
Chaucer.
Servant of servants, one debased to the lowest condition of servitude.
-- Your humble servant, or Your obedient servant, phrases of civility
often used in closing a letter.
Our betters tell us they are our humble servants, but understand us
to be their slaves.
Swift.
Serv"ant, v. t. To subject. [Obs.] Shak.
Serv"ant*ess, n. A maidservant. [Obs.] Wyclif.