To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or followservilely or irrationally.
Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address.
One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.
Defn: One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.
Both these words are applied to the conduct of one who adapts himself servilely to times and seasons.
But I accursed, who servilely must move, And sooth his passion, for his daughters love!
It is a necessary and warrantable pride to disdain to walk servilelybehind any individual, however elevated his rank.
The great use in copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning to colour; yet even colouring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the mould before you.
He will leave the meaner artist servilely to suppose that those are the best pictures which are most likely to deceive the spectator.
He trembled servilely before God because God was the only being before whom he had to tremble.
We can hardly believe that the Mesopotamian artists, in illustrating the wars of the Assyrian kings, copied servilely the real features of the conquered towns.
Besides, we have proofs that they were not content to go on servilely reproducing one and the same type for twenty centuries; their temples were not all shaped in the same mould.
As the tragic poets of this century servilely imitated Sophocles and Euripides, the comic writers copied Plautus and Terence.
The French school of tragic poets took them for their model; Corneille evidently considered them the ideal of tragedy, and Racine servilely imitated them.
How can they consistently call themselves independent while they servilelyfollow the mandates of the dressmakers who periodically make money by inventing new fashions necessitating new clothes?
It has, as a rule, caused men to think independently, and not to servilelyfollow the thoughts and ideas of others, who may be quite wrong.
Brought up in fear and ignorance as they are, it can scarcely be conceived howservilely they will cringe before a white man's look.
One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.
They did servilelycomply with the people in worshiping God by sensible images.
They did servilelycomply with the people in worshiping God by sensible images.
If I made your bust I should be servilely attached to these things which are everything to me because they are something of you.
It is wrong to make others do servilely for us work which we can do ourselves with noble pride.
By this means one great Genius often catches the Flame from another, and writes in his Spirit, without copying servilely after him.
The affections of the heart ought not to be too much indulged, nor servilely depressed.
The great use in copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning to colour; yet even colouring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.
Could the blindest Poor Papish have bowed more servilely to his Priest or Casuist?
The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely to those above him.
Perhaps it may seem remarkable, that a poet of his powerful genius did not rather write new plays, than copy servilely from the Greeks.
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