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noun

Servant n.

One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper. "A yearly hired servant." "Men in office have begun to think themselves mere agents and servants of the appointing power, and not agents of the government or the country." Note: In a legal sense, stewards, factors, bailiffs, and other agents, are servants for the time they are employed in such character, as they act in subordination to others. So any person may be legally the servant of another, in whose business, and under whose order, direction, and control, he is acting for the time being.

One in a state of subjection or bondage. "Thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt."

A professed lover or suitor; a gallant. (Obs.) "In my time a servant was I one."

Servant of servants, one debased to the lowest condition of servitude.

Your humble servant, or Your obedient servant, phrases of civility formerly often used in closing a letter, now archaic; at one time such phrases were exaggerated to include Your most humble, most obedient servant. "Our betters tell us they are our humble servants, but understand us to be their slaves."

verb

Servant v. t. To subject. (Obs.)

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... hit, but now the whole company shouted with delight until the columns of the Lyceum returned the sound, seeming to sympathize in their joy. To such a pitch was I affected myself, that I made a speech, in which I acknowledged that I had never seen the like of their wisdom; I was their devoted servant, and fell to praising and admiring of them. What marvellous dexterity of wit, I said, enabled you to acquire this great perfection in such a short time? There is much, indeed, to admire in your words, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, but there is nothing that I admire more than your ...

— Euthydemus • Plato

... the advantages of the great and little, the served and the servant, the good and the bad, should be reciprocal; that that which is used is, or should be, as much advantaged in the using as is the user. I would ask them—what particular advantage it is to the oyster to be devoured? or what return can the earth make to the sun for his rays, ...

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