[UNDER-1 6 b.] Service of an inferior kind; subordinate service.

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1598.  Florio, Sumministratione, a subministration,… an vnderseruice.

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1641.  Milton, Ch. Govt., II. Wks. 1851, III. 149. But were it the meanest under-service, if God by his Secretary conscience injoyn it, it were sad for me if I should draw back.

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1760–72.  H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), III. 4. Will you not suffer a sister … who may assist in the under-services to the servants of our Master?

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