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Meaning of SERVIFOR

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Serv"i*for\, n. [L., fr. servire to serve: cf. F.
serviteur.]
1. One who serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts
   under another; a follower or adherent.
         Your trusty and most valiant servitor. --Shak.
2. (Univ. of Oxford, Eng.) An undergraduate, partly supported
   by the college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait
   at table. A servitor corresponded to a sizar in Cambridge
   and Dublin universities.
 
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