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menially

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me·ni·al  (mn-l, mnyl)
adj.
1. Of or relating to work or a job regarded as servile.
2. Of, relating to, or appropriate for a servant.
n.
1. A servant, especially a domestic servant.
2. A person who has a servile or low nature.
[Middle English meinial, belonging to a household, from Anglo-Norman meignial, from meignee, household, from Vulgar Latin *mnsinta, from Latin mnsi, mnsin-, house; see mansion.]
meni·al·ly adv.
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Adv.1.menially - in a menial mannermenially - in a menial manner                  
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1) Already in Tudor times it was not thought incongruous for the sons of the landed gentry to engage, however menially, in trade.
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