servient

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin serviēns, servientis.

Adjective

servient (comparative more servient, superlative most servient)

  1. (obsolete, law) subordinate
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Derived terms
  • servient tenement

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for servient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

servient

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of serviō
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