Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The position of a servitor. See
servitor .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office, rank, or condition of a servitor.
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- noun The office, rank, or condition of a
servitor .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He could not promise to do more; but would undertake for the servitorship.
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Tewkesbury, the son of a miller, he had won his way to a servitorship at Christ Church, Oxford; and somehow, in the course of one Long
The Ship of Stars Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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_I shall show, later, that Robert Greene, through the pen of his coadjutor, Thomas Nashe, in an earlier attack than that of 1592, refers to Shakespeare's servitorship and to the acquisitions of knowledge he made during his idle hours.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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During the leisure hours of the years of his servitorship he studied the arts as he found them in MS.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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By his interest with the Rev.Dr. Adams, master of Pembroke College, Oxford, where he was educated for some time, he obtained a servitorship for young M'Aulay.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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He could not promise to do more; but would undertake for the servitorship [382].
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Johnson offers to get a servitorship for her son, ii, 380; v. mentioned, v. 119.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Later on in the same evening he atoned for his incivility by giving one of the boys of the house a pocket Sallust, and promising to procure him a servitorship at Oxford.
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883
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"I had hoped, Sir Richard -- and therefore I said it was not his fault -- but there was never a servitorship at Exeter open."
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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Johnson offers to get a servitorship for her son, ii, 380; v. 122; mentioned, v. 119.
Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. James Boswell 1767
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