Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
service .
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Examples
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Wherforre will I brynge it mineself bye lande untoe yr Excellencie thatte it maye serve wel as maibe thee cause of thee Lorde and hys Righteouse to bee of use and servyce suche as seemeth wel to y'rselfe.
War Game Price, Anthony 1976
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Item xii poore men beynge olde servynge men decayed by warres or in the Kyng's servyce every of them vi li. xiii s. iiii d. by yere lxvi li. xiii s. iiii d.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See Joseph E. Bygate
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Immediately after this eightpence is given "to a pore lame sowldior hurted in the quenes servyce in yrland having a lisens."
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Mr. Beeston and others for there chardges three several tymes to Barnett from London and from Highgate xljs.iiijd. the servauntes of the Lorde Bysshoppe of Durham sent at several tymes in the Lordes of the Councell and for other busynesses concerning this servyce xlvs.vjd. and to Sr. James
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Wyshing yow all &c and myself occasion to doe yow servyce
Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875
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‘Yeomen of Chambre, IIII, to make beddes, to bere or hold torches, to sette bourdes, to apparayle all chaumbres, and suche other servyce as the chaumberlayn, or usshers of chambre command or assigne.’
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Moreover to teche them sondry languages, and othyr lerninges vertuous, to harping, to pype, sing, daunce, and with other honest and temperate behaviour and patience; and to kepe dayly and wekely with these children dew convenity, with corrections in theyre chambres, according to suche gentylmen; and eche of them to be used to that thinge of vertue that he shall be moste apt to lerne, with remembraunce dayly of Goddes servyce accustumed.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Margery Thornton was dismissed from my servyce to Mrs. Child, and
The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts John Dee 1567
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May 21st, I discharged Letice of my servyce, and payd all duetyes untyll this day, her yere ending on the 8th of Aprill.
The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts John Dee 1567
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Aug. 19th, Elizabeth Felde cam to my servyce: she is to have five nobles the yere and a smok.
The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts John Dee 1567
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