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Webster 1913 Edition
Servitor
Serv′i-tor
,Noun.
[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
. Shakespeare
2.
(Univ. of Oxford, Eng.)
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Servitor
SERV'ITOR
,Noun.
1. A servant; an attendant.
2. One that acts under another; a follower or adherent.
3. One that professes duty and obedience.
4. In the university of Oxford, a student who attends on another for his maintenance and learning; such as is called in Cambridge, a sizer.
Definition 2024
servitor
servitor
See also: servitör
English
Noun
servitor (plural servitors)
- One who performs the duties of a servant.
- 1927, The Saturday Evening Post (volume 200, page 150)
- He heard Rogers' voice raised in the reception room; he stepped to the doorway and saw his servitor arguing with an elderly and trampish man who had got in somehow.
- 1927, The Saturday Evening Post (volume 200, page 150)
- One who serves in an army; a soldier.
- (historical) An undergraduate who performed menial duties in exchange for financial support from his college, particularly at Oxford University.
Quotations
- 1884, W.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida
- "You'll find no sizars here, or servitors/or other cruel distinctions meant to draw/a line 'twixt rich and poor"
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 22
- The servitors waxed silent, each lost in introspection, until the rattle of the Valmouth cab announced the expected guest.