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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Servitor \Serv"i*tor\, noun [L., fr. servire to serve: cf. F. serviteur.] 1. One who serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts under another; a follower or adherent. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. --Shak. 2. (Univ. of Oxford, Eng.) 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. From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: noun 1: someone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone else From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Servitor occurs only in 2 Kings 4:43, Authorized Version (R.V., "servant"). The Hebrew word there rendered "servitor" is elsewhere rendered "minister," "servant" (Ex. 24:13; 33:11). Probably Gehazi, the personal attendant on Elisha, is here meant. |
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