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to lackey it
1. intransitive. To do service as a lackey, esp. as a running footman; to run on errands, dance attendance, do menial service. Frequently figurative of persons and immaterial things. Const. after, by, to, upon; also, to lackey it. Obsolete.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > attend as servant [verb (intransitive)] > act as lackey
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1568 Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau ii. iii. sig. C.iv I must lackey and come lugging greyhound and hound.
1592 J. Lyly Gallathea iv. ii. sig. F2 Cupid,..you shall..lackie after Diana all day.
1604 T. Dekker Magnificent Entertainm. sig. I2 The Minutes (that lackey at the heeles of Time) run not faster away then do our joyes.
1613 T. Heywood Brazen Age i. 178 I'le lackey by the wheresoe're thou goest.
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) v. 131 Who would willingly Lackey along so vast a lake of brine?
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. iii. 138 Redmond Burke..caried him out of the countrey, making him lackie it by his horse side on foote like a common Horse-boy.
1640 N. Fiennes in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 181 Let the high and great Censure of the Church no longer lacquy after Fees.
1642 J. Hales Tract conc. Schisme 13 This abuse of Christianity to make it Lacquey to Ambition, is a vice for which [etc.].
1657 Lusts Dominion i. iv. sig. B11 Alvero. Shall they thus tread thee down, which once were glad, To Lacquey by thy conquering Chariot wheeles.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 18 The whole of this is eternity,..that share of it that lackies it by the worlds side is time.
1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine: 2nd Pt. 73 Intellect, that in the Throne should sit, Must lacky after Lust.
a1677 T. Manton Christs Tempt. (1685) iv. 105 That his Power and Goodness should lacquey upon, and be at the beck of our idle and wanton humors.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 864 It being indecorous that this Divine..Power, should constantly lacquey by and attend upon Natural Generations.
1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. e3 He is a Foot-Poet, he Lacquies by the side of Virgil at the best, but never mounts behind him.
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