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An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank. [Obs.] Shak.

Drudging; servile. [Colloq.] Bred to some poking profession. Gray.

Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.

Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.

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.

Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great. -- Slav"ish*ly, adv. -- Slav"ish*ness, 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. Spenser.

ubserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling. Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in one kind or other. Bp. Fell. These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another. Ray. Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to the…

The act of flattering to gain favor; servile approbation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men. A sycophant will everything admire: Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire. Dryden.

Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount. Ma task of servile toil. Milton. Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close. Longfellow.

Resembling a thrall, or his condition, feelings, or the like; slavish. Servile and thrall-like fear. Milton.

The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.

r with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body. My task of servile toil. Milton. After such bloody toil, we bid good night. Shak.

ad always been deciared illegal, and which had recently been declared illegal even by the servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the last time in England in the month of May,

To copy; to imitate. That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word, and line by line. Denham.

One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.

Dotingly fond of, or servilely submissive to, a wife; uxorious; also, becoming a wife; pertaining to a wife. [R.] The speech [of Zipporah, Ex. iv. 25] is not a speech of reproach or indignation, but of uxorial endearment. Geddes.

Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile. The sun and every vassal star. Keble.

Suiting a salve; servile; obsequious. [R.] The example . . . of vernile scurrility. De Quincey.