Word Meanings - MENIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

maisniée, 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

Additional info about word: MENIAL

maisniée, 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 servants; servile; low; mean. " Menial offices." Swift.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MENIAL)

• Servile
• Obsequious
• cringing
• sequacious
• menial
• sneaking
• low
• abject
• Underling
• Menial
• subordinate

Related words: (words related to MENIAL)

• CRINGLE
  An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate.
• ABJECT
  1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile;
• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• MENIAL
  maisniée, 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
• SNEAK
  1. To creep or steal privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. imp. & p. p. "snuck" is more common now, but not even mentioned here. In MW10, simply "sneaked or snuck" You skulked
• UNDERLABORER
  An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.
• SEQUACIOUSNESS
  Quality of being sequacious.
• SNEAK CURRENT
  A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.
• OBSEQUIOUSLY
  1. In an obsequious manner; compliantly; fawningly. Dryden. 2. In a manner appropriate to obsequies. Whilst I a while obsequiously lament The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster. Shak.
• UNDERLING
  An inferior person or agent; a subordinate; hence, a mean, sorry fellow. Milton. he fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Shak.
• UNDERLOAD STARTER
  A motor starter provided with an underload switch.
• UNDERLAID
  Laid or placed underneath; also, having something laid or lying underneath.
• SUBORDINATE
  1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward. 2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. It was
• SNEAKING
  Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching. -- Sneak"ing*ly, adv. -- Sneak"ing*ness, n.
• SNEAKY
  Like a sneak; sneaking.
• OBSEQUIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being obsequious. South.
• UNDERLINE
  1. To mark a line below, as words; to underscore. 2. To influence secretly. Sir H. Wotton.
• UNDERLOCKER
  A person who inspects a mine daily; -- called also underviewer.
• UNDERLETTER
  A tenant or lessee who grants a lease to another.
• INSUBORDINATE
  Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
• CATAMENIAL
  Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.