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Word Meanings - DRUDGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue. He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. Macaulay.

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  • SERVILELY
    In a servile manner; slavishly.
  • SERVILENESS
    Quality of being servile; servility.
  • DALLY
    trifle, talk nonsense, OSw. tule a droll or funny man; or AS. dol 1. To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. We have trifled too long already;
  • DOMESTICATE
    1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild
  • DRUDGER
    1. One who drudges; a drudge. 2. A dredging box.
  • DEPENDENT
    1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. 2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining;
  • SLAVEOCRACY
    See SLAVOCRACY
  • SLAVEHOLDING
    Holding persons in slavery.
  • MENIAL
    maisniƩe, maisnie, LL. mansionaticum. See Mansion, and cf. Meine, n., 1. Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving. Two menial dogs before their master pressed. Dryden. 2. Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic
  • LUXURIATE
    1. To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance. " Corn luxuriates in a better mold." Burton. 2. To feed or live luxuriously; as, the herds luxuriate in the pastures. 3. To indulge with unrestrained delight and freedom; as, to luxuriate
  • DOMESTICATION
    The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.
  • DOMESTICANT
    Forming part of the same family. Sir E. Dering.
  • ATTENDANT
    Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant,
  • SLAVERY
    1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this
  • DRUDGE
    To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue. He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. Macaulay.
  • DOMESTICALLY
    In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.
  • SERVILE
    1. Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience. She must bend the servile
  • SLAVEBORN
    Born in slavery.
  • SLAVE
    See SLAV
  • DRUDGERY
    The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil. The drudgery of penning definitions. Macaulay. Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow. Locke. Syn. -- See Toll.
  • CATAMENIAL
    Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.
  • ENSLAVEMENT
    The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.
  • INTERDEPENDENT
    Mutually dependent.
  • ENSLAVEDNESS
    State of being enslaved.
  • REENSLAVE
    To enslave again.
  • ENDRUDGE
    To make a drudge or slave of. Bp. Hall.
  • HEBDOMADALLY
    In periods of seven days; weekly. Lowell.
  • DILLY-DALLY
    To loiter or trifle; to waste time.
  • WHITE SLAVE
    A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman forced into unwilling prostitution.

 

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