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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Menial

Mē’nĭ-al, a.

adjective

a. [Norm. Fr. megnal, meignal, O. Fr. meignial, from meignee, maisgnee, maisnie, Norm. Fr. mesnee, mesnie, family, household, or company, See MEINE, MEINY.]

Sense 1. Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office: serving.

Two menial dogs before their master pressed. Dryden.

Sense 2. Pertaining to servants, or domestic servants; servile; low; mean.

The women attendants perform only the most menial offices. Swift.

Mēn'ial, n.

noun

n. 1. A domestic servant; one employed in low or servile offices. 2. A person of a servile character or disposition.