Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Menial

Menial , adjective

[Old English meneal, from meine, maine, household, Old French maisniée, maisnie, Late Latin mansionaticum. See Mansion, and compare Meine, n., Meiny.]

1.
Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
Two menial dogs before their master pressed. — Dryden
2.
Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean; as, menial tasks.
Menial offices. — Swift

Menial , noun

1.
A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices.
2.
A person of a servile character or disposition.