1. (a.) 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. (a.) Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.

3. (a.) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.

4. (a.) Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, as e in tune.

5. (n.) An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.

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