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Servitor


SERV'ITOR, noun [From Latin servio, to serve.]

1. A servant; an attendant.

2. One that acts under another; a follower or adherent.

3. One that professes duty and obedience.

4. In the university of Oxford, a student who attends on another for his maintenance and learning; such as is called in Cambridge, a sizer.