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Connotatively, it implies "to make like a dog" - base, servile, and submissive. ...— Never Yet Melted
Connotatively, it implies "to make like a dog" - base, servile, and submissive.— Israpundit
[198] The dread of injury made the timid servile, and corrupted private intercourse.— The History of Tasmania, Volume I
Meantime, that vast mass of the population of Western Europe whose condition was servile or semi-servile--the Roman and German personal slaves, the Roman coloni and the German lidi_--were concurrently absorbed by the feudal organisation, a few of them assuming a menial relation to the lords, but the greater part receiving land on terms which in those centuries were considered degrading.— Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society

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