SERVITUDE
\sˈɜːvɪtjˌuːd], \sˈɜːvɪtjˌuːd], \s_ˈɜː_v_ɪ_t_j_ˌuː_d]\
Definitions of SERVITUDE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A right whereby one thing is subject to another thing or person for use or convenience, contrary to the common right.
By Oddity Software
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A right whereby one thing is subject to another thing or person for use or convenience, contrary to the common right.
By Noah Webster.
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The condition of a slave; menial employment; subjection to a master; labor enforced as a punishment; as, penal servitude.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. |Latin] State of voluntary or involuntary subjection to a master; slavery; bondage;-state of a conquered country ; slavish dependence ;-in civil law, the right or title to the use of a thing for general or for a particular purpose, without having personal interest or property in it-such as right of way, water, &c., on another man's land.