Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!
Pope.
3. (Gram.) (a) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile
letter. (b) Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding
vowel, as e in tune.
Serv"ile, n. (Gram.) An element which forms no part of the original
root; -- opposed to radical.
Serv"ile*ly, adv. In a servile manner; slavishly.
Serv"ile*ness, n. Quality of being servile; servility.
Ser*vil"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. servilité.] The quality or state of being
servile; servileness.
To be a queen in bondage is more vile Than is a slave in base
servility.
Shak.
Serv"ing, a. & n. from Serve.
Serving board (Naut.), a flat piece of wood used in serving ropes. --
Serving maid, a female servant; a maidservant. -- Serving mallet
(Naut.), a wooden instrument shaped like a mallet, used in serving
ropes. -- Serving man, a male servant, or attendant; a manservant. --
Serving stuff (Naut.), small lines for serving ropes.
Serv"ite (?), n. [It. servita.] (R.C.Ch.) One of the order of the
Religious Servants of the Holy Virgin, founded in Florence in 1223.
Serv"i*tor (?), n. [L., fr. servire to serve: cf. F. serviteur.] 1. One
who serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts under another; a
follower or adherent.
Your trusty and most valiant servitor.
Shak.
2. (Univ. of Oxford, Eng.) An undergraduate, partly supported by the
college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. A servitor
corresponded to a sizar in Cambridge and Dublin universities.
Serv"i*tor*ship, n. The office, rank, or condition of a servitor.
Boswell.
Serv"i*tude (?), n. [L. servitudo: cf. F. servitude.] 1. The state of
voluntary or compulsory subjection to a master; the condition of being
bound to service; the condition of a slave; slavery; bondage; hence, a
state of slavish dependence.
You would have sold your king to slaughter, His princes and his
peers to servitude.
Shak.
A splendid servitude; . . . for he that rises up early, and goe&?;
to bed late, only to receive addresses, is really as much abridged
in his freedom as he that waits to present one.
South.