servitor

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"For one year and a half did I follow him as his servitor--profiting by his knowledge--gaining varied information from his experience--passing with the rapidity of thought from clime to clime--surveying scenes of ineffable bliss, and studying all the varieties of misery that fall to the lot of human nature.

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  1. noun One that performs the duties of a servant to another; an attendant.

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  • Duque of Califa or the lowliest servitor, all are equal within my walls. —  FSF, July 2006
  • But Herzig was speaking to a servitor, and then two palace guards were escorting him away from the flopears and toward—he recognized this route!—toward the dungeon. —  Serpents's Silver
  • “Daeman Uhr ?” queried the servitor, although it obviously knew who he was. —  Dan Simmons - Hockenberry 1 - Ilium
  • The flechettes tore paint and metal fragments from the servitor, and shattered one manipulator arm and ripped off an eye, but did not destroy it. —  Dan Simmons - Hockenberry 1 - Ilium
  • Conan dismounted and the page called a servitor, who came running to receive the stallion's rein. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
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  1. Middle English servitour, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin servītor, from servīre, to serve; see serve.

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  1. Early modern English also servitour; from Middle English servitour, servytour, from Old French servitour, serviteur, from French serviteur = Provencal Spanish Portuguese servidor = Italian servidore, servitore, from Late Latin servitor, one who serves, from Latin servire, serve: see serve.
 

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/ˈsərvɪtər/
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