Definitions
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- noun Obsolete spelling of
servant .
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Examples
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Her French tutor, Giles Duwes, with her since her time in the Welsh Marches, left her household in 1533 and wrote her a guilty little letter that he sheepishly noted was "written by your vnworthy seruant the nyght that he toke leue of your grace."
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When Thomas Wriothlessly offered exceptional hospitality to one of Mary's servants, he received the rare compliment of a hand-written letter from Mary thanking him for the "intertaynyng [of] my seruant."
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“Carte de la nouuelle france, augmentée depuis la derniere seruant a la nauigation faicte en son vray Meridien, par le Sr de Champlain…” printed 1632; Library and Archives Canada, NMC 51970
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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“Carte de la nouuelle france, augmentée depuis la derniere seruant a la nauigation faicte en son vray Meridien, par le Sr de Champlain…” printed 1632; Library and Archives Canada, NMC 51970
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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But in regard of the foresayd seruant, wee were out of the Russians daunger, the greatest part of whome were either slaine, or caried into captiuitie by the Tartars.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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And out of that which was giuen vnto our seruant, they stole the better halfe.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Et à simili probant Christianos malos, quod non seruant legem Euangelij
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And when they come together to drinke and make merie, they sprinckle parte of their drinke vpon the image which is aboue the masters head: afterward vpon other images in order: then goeth a seruant out of the house with a cuppe full of drinke sprinckling it thrise towards the South, and bowing his knee at euery time: and this is done for the honour of the fire.
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Imperator, multi Barones ingressum seruant intentè, et ne limen tangatur, quod hoc haberent pro augurio, et benè verberaretur, quia
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Simile et in Italia Marsorum gentis durat, quos à Circes filio ortos seruant, et ideo inesse ijs vim naturalem eam.
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