I. SERVANT. This Word generally signifies a Slave. For formerly among the Hebrews, and the neighbouring Nations, the greatest Part of Servants were Slaves, that is to say, they belong’d absolutely to their Masters, who had a Right to dispose of their Persons, their Bodies, Goods, and even of their Lives in some Cases.
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