Servile

(Synop., § 130), a. [Fr. & D. servile, Pr., Sp., Pg., & O. Fr. servil, Lat. servilis, from servus, a servant or slave.]

1. Pertaining to, or befitting, a servant or slave; slavish; mean; proceeding from dependence; as, servile fear; servile obedience.
2. Held in subjection; dependent.

E'en fortune rules no more a servile land. Pope. 3. Meanly submissive; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery. She must bend the servile knee. Thomson. 4. (Gram.) (a.) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter. (b.) Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, as e in time.