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   Menial , a. [OE. meneal, fr. meine, maine, household, OF. maisniée, maisnie, LL. mansionaticum. See Mansion, and cf. Meine, n., Meiny.]
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   Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
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   Two menial dogs before their master pressed.
   Dryden.
   
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   Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean; as, menial tasks. “ Menial offices.”  
   Swift.
   
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   Menial, n.
   A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices.
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   A person of a servile character or disposition.
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