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servient, a.|ˈsɜːvɪənt|
[ad. L. servient-em, pr. pple. of servīre to serve.]
1. Subordinate, subject to rule. rare. † Also, performing service, serving.
1647Cowley Mistress, The Soul i, My Soul..in another's Breast does lye, That neither Is, nor will be I, As a Form Servient and Assisting there. 1650T. Bayly Herba Parietis 3 A liberall fountaine, which was no lesse servient to the grotts for waterworks, then to the house for use. 1724Waterland Farther Vind. 120 This celebrated Father is full and express, in his famous Creed, against any thing created, or servient, in the Trinity. 1892T. Watts in Athenæum 2 Apr. 436/2 She..endows men..with two different kinds of personality, the dominant and the servient.
†b. absol. Obs. rare.
c1615Boys Wks. (1629) 436 But in generall onely you se that Angels are seruients vnto God, and his people.
2. Law. servient land, servient tenement: a land or tenement over which a servitude has been granted or acquired in favour of a dominant land or tenement. servient proprietor: the tenant of a servient land or tenement.
1681Stair Inst. Law Scot. ii. vii. (1693) 284 The Servitude of Support, whereby the servient Tenement is lyable to bear any Burden for the use of the Dominant. Ibid. 287 A Watergang is a Servitude, of conveying Water thorow the servient Ground, for the use of the Dominant. 1754Erskine Princ. Law Scot. (1809) 221 The owner of the servient tenement is not obliged, in a servitude of support, to repair it, unless [etc.]. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 864 This class of servitudes imports no obligation on the servient proprietor to maintain the road. 1871–4W. Markby Elem. Law §371 English lawyers call..the land over which it [an easement] is exercised the servient land.
transf.1864Blackmore Clara Vaughan lxvii, His great fear was, that the..Della Croce estates should become a servient tenement to the frozen fields of the North. |