"Servile" is a word in ENGLISH
Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding
vowel, as e in tune.
An element which forms no part of the original root; --
opposed to radical.
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.
Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
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A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three Hell's Angels' bikers walked in. The first walked up to the old man, pushed his cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man, spat into the old man's milk and then he too took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man, turned over the old man's plate, and then he took a seat at the counter. Without a word of protest, the old man quietly left the diner. Shortly thereafter, one of the bikers said to the waitress, "Humph, not much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied, "Not much of a truck driver either, he just backed his big-rig over three motorcycles."
Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.
Read the complete definitionMeanly; servilely.
Read the complete definitionThe state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility.
Read the complete definitionTo flatter in a servile way.
Read the complete definitionServile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.
Read the complete definitionA servile or hypocritical flatterer.
Read the complete definitionContaining excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address.
Read the complete definitionA woman who flatters with servility.
Read the complete definitionOne who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.
Read the complete definitionTo mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.
Read the complete definitionHaving the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.
Read the complete definitionIn an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.
Read the complete definitionThe base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
Read the complete definitionMean; servile.
Read the complete definitionIn the Roman law. Per* sons employed ln servile duties on hoard of vessels. Cod. 11, 12
Read the complete definitionA cottager or cottage-hold-er who held by servile tenure and was bound to do the work of the lord. Cowell
Read the complete definitionTo advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
Read the complete definitionA person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.
Read the complete definitionTo move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
Read the complete definitionServile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility.
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