[serviant
A spurious word, due to Berners' having misread the F. serment oath as seruiant.
In the first quot. Berners seems to have taken the word as an adj. (cf. servient a.).
| 1525 Ld. Berners Froiss. II. clii. 167 b, There all the companyons made them seruyaunt to Aleyne Roux. Ibid. II. clxxiii. 210 No man myght entre in to that..company, without he make seruyaunt or othe, neuer to beare armoure agaynste the crowne of Englande.] |