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Definition of Servetor

Serv"i*tor (?), n. [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.

Serv"i*tor (?), n. [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.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

  • an undergraduate who performed menial duties in exchange for financial support from his college
         
  • "You'll find no sizars here, or servitors/or other cruel distinctions meant to draw/a line 'twixt rich and poor" — W.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida, 1884
  • one who performs the duties of a servant
  • (Cthulhu mythos jargon) a being enslaved in the service of a higher power
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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