What does "menial" mean?
Menial: Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean. " Menial offices." Swift.
Additional senses
- 2.A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices.
- 3.A person of a servile character or disposition. MENIERE'S DISEASE Mé`nière's" dis*ease". (Med.) A disease characterized by deafness and vertigo, resulting in incoördination of movement. It is supposed to depend upon a morbid condition of the semicircular canals of the internal ear. Named after Ménière, a French physician.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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