"Menial" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.

Meanly; servilely.

The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility.

To flatter in a servile way.

Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.

A servile or hypocritical flatterer.

Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address.

A woman who flatters with servility.

One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.

To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.

Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.

In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.

The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

Mean; servile.

In the Roman law. Per* sons employed ln servile duties on hoard of vessels. Cod. 11, 12

A cottager or cottage-hold-er who held by servile tenure and was bound to do the work of the lord. Cowell

To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.

A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.

To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.

Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility.