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Servile

from dependence hence meanly submissive slavish mean cringing fawning as servile flattery servile fear servile obedience

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

or Villein [fr. vilis, Lat.], a man of base or servile condition; a bondman or servant; one who held by a

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Snottering silver, a small duty which was paid by servile tenants in Wylegh to the abbot of Colchester.

Servi, bondmen, or servile tenants.They were of four sorts: (1) Such as sold themselves

Rep-silver, money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, to be quit of the duty

of land by the duty of performing bodily labour and servile works for their lord.

L't [fr. litus, lidas, letus], one of a class between servile and free, Palgrave, i. 354.

This liberty was anciently denied to those parents who were servile tenants, without the lord's consent; the prohibition against the education

Kilketh, an ancient servile payment made by tenants in husbandry.

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