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Definition of Servitor
1. Noun. Someone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone else.
Definition of Servitor
1. n. One who serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts under another; a follower or adherent.
Definition of Servitor
1. Noun. one who performs the duties of a servant. ¹
2. Noun. one who serves in an army; a soldier. ¹
3. Noun. an undergraduate who performed menial duties in exchange for financial support from his college, particularly at Oxford University ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Servitor
1. a male servant [n -S] - See also: servant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Servitor
Literary usage of Servitor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland by Scotland Privy Council (1908)
"Cheyne, apparent thereof, John Sim, his servitor, and the said Mi- Patrick Cheyne.
... servitor to the said Patrick Campbell, and the said William Many. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1891)
"... mathematician and geographer, born at Little Hereford about 1053, entered
Brasenose College, Oxford, as a servitor in 1571, or perhaps later. ..."
3. A Life of William Shakespeare by Sidney Lee (1909)
"... parish clerk of Stratford at the jend of the seventeenth century, was in the
habit of telling visitors that he entered the playhouse as a servitor. ..."
4. The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland by Scotland Privy Council (1901)
"... the said messenger Dunkelt!, and servitor to John, Earl of Atholl, Andrew Oyne
in Blair, ... servitor to Robert Stewart of ..."
5. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"rank, the same as servitor at Oxford ; but it was arranged that he should be
admitted as a pensioner, or a scholar who pays for his Commons. ..."
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