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servitor

[ sur-vi-ter ]

noun

  1. a person who is in or at the service of another; attendant.
  2. a glass worker who blocks the gather and does the preliminary blowing of glass for the gaffer.


servitor

/ ˈɜːɪə /

noun

  1. archaic.
    a person who serves another
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of servitor1

1300–50; Middle English servitour < Anglo-French < Late Latin īٴǰ, equivalent to Latin ī ( re ) to serve + -tor -tor
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Word History and Origins

Origin of servitor1

C14: from Old French servitour, from Late Latin īٴǰ, from Latin īre to serve
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He banged on the reinforced steel door, which slid aside to reveal a human servitor, a middle-aged woman, dressed wholly in white, with a slave-collar around her neck.

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Most Cheney watchers, including Bush, believe that Cheney changed from an utterly reliable servitor into an ideologue, partly as a result of the September 11th attacks.

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Dany put the glass back on the servitor's tray, and went inside.

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One of his confidential servitors was a certain Berenger, who had been condemned for heresy.

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Diego offered himself for the purpose and was accepted, whereupon he sent his servitors home, retaining only his sub-prior, Domingo de Guzman, who had already, on the voyage towards Rome, converted a heretic in Toulouse.

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