Both Uses of
menial
in
Gulliver's Travels
- They are dressed by men till four years of age, and then are obliged to dress themselves, although their quality be ever so great; and the women attendant, who are aged proportionably to ours at fifty, perform only the most menial offices.†
Chpt 1 *
- A convenient apartment was provided for her at court: she had a sort of governess appointed to take care of her education, a maid to dress her, and two other servants for menial offices; but the care of me was wholly appropriated to herself.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(menial) of work: unskilled and uninteresting