▪ I. † serviture Obs. rare.
Also 6 Sc. scherviture.
[ad. med.L. servītūra, f. L. servīre to serve: see -ture.]
1. Service, servitude.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xlv. 8 Scho haldis with continwance No scheruiture. |
2. The whole body of servants in a family.
| a 1667 Milton in Prose Wks. (1738) I. p. xliv, The Chorus of Shepherds præpare resistance in thire Maister's Defence, calling the rest of the serviture. |
▪ II. serviture
obs. form of servitor.