SERVITORS

Noun

servitors

plural of servitor

Anagrams

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Source: Wiktionary


SERVITOR

Serv"i*tor, n. Etym: [L., fr. servire to serve: cf. F. serviteur.]

1. One who serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts under another; a follower or adherent. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak.

2. (Univ. of Oxford, Eng.)

Definition: An undergraduate, partly supported by the college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. A servitor corresponded to a sizar in Cambridge and Dublin universities.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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