1. Adjective
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.
2. Adjective
Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
3. Adjective
Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.
4. Adjective
Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.
5. Noun
An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.
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