SERV'ILE, a. L. servilis, from servio, to serve.
1. Such as pertains to a servant or slave slavish mean such as proceeds from dependence as servile fear servile obedience.
2. Held in subjection dependent.
Ev'n fortune rules no more a servile land. Pope.
3. Cringing fawning meanly submissive as servile flattery.
She must bend the servile knee. Thomson.
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