servilely

Adverb

servilely (comparative more servilely, superlative most servilely)

1. In a servile way; fawningly.
   • In the works of nature we find, in many instances, beauty and sublimity involved among circumstances, which are either indifferent, or which obstruct the general effect: and it is only by a train of experiments, that we can separate those circumstances from the rest... Accordingly, the...1808, Dugald Stewart, Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, pages 315–6
   • As a-curse is not found before the 12th c., the prefix does not here represent an older ar- or an-, but is imitated from the a- into which both of these had then sunk, and was apparently intensive, as in wake, a-wake, rise, a-rise. In 5, when the scribes latinized the Fr[ench] prefix a- before c to...1884–1928, “Accurse, v.”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume I, London: Clarendon Press...