Word Meanings - SERVITOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An undergraduate, partly supported by the college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. A servitor corresponded to a sizar in Cambridge and Dublin universities. (more info) 1. One who serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts

Additional info about word: SERVITOR

An undergraduate, partly supported by the college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. A servitor corresponded to a sizar in Cambridge and Dublin universities. (more info) 1. One who serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts under another; a follower or adherent. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak.

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• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• TABLER
  1. One who boards. 2. One who boards others for hire. B. Jonson.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• TABLEAU VIVANT
  See 2
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• TABLEMAN
  A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. Bacon.
• PARTLY
  In part; in some measure of degree; not wholly. "I partly believe it." 1 Cor. xi. 18.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• CORRESPOND
  1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• SERVITORSHIP
  The office, rank, or condition of a servitor. Boswell.
• CORRESPONDINGLY
  In a corresponding manner; conformably.
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• TABLESPOON
  A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.
• CORRESPONDENT
  One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance. (more info) 1. One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter. Macualay. 2. One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to
• TABLEAU
  1. A striking and vivid representation; a picture. 2. A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and motionless.
• UNDERGRADUATE
  A member of a university or a college who has not taken his first degree; a student in any school who has not completed his course.
• COLLEGE
  1. A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. The
• ATTENDANT
  Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant,
• MOUNTABLE
  Such as can be mounted.
• IMPALATABLE
  Unpalatable.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• POSTABLE
  Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• UNWARRANTABLE
  Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• INTESTABLE
  Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.
• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• COUNTABLE
  Capable of being numbered.
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• INEXPECTABLE
  Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.
• DISCREDITABLE
  Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv.
• IMPERSCRUTABLE
  Not capable of being searched out; inscrutable. -- Im`per*scru"ta*ble*ness, n.
• FERMENTABLE
  Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.