servile work

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noun

1. RC Church work of a physical nature that is forbidden on Sundays and on certain holidays

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servile work

And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now servile work is so called from servitude: and servitude is threefold.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Days of Obligation.—These are days on which Communicants are bound by the Faith they profess to be present at the celebration of the Holy Communion and to rest as much as possible from servile work.

From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by William James Miller

Thus, it is a liberal work to paint a portrait, a servile work to paint the walls of a house.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan

Menial, mē′ni-al, adj. of or pertaining to a train of servants: doing servile work: low.—n. a domestic servant: one performing servile work: a person of servile disposition.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various