Definition of Subserveint
Sub*serv"i*ent (?), a. [L.
subserviens, -entis, p. pr. See Subserve.]
Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity;
serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile,
truckling.
Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make
subservient in one kind or other. Bp.
Fell.
These ranks of creatures are subservient one to
another. Ray.
Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient
to their proselytizing spirit. Burke.
Sub*serv"i*ent (?), a. [L.
subserviens, -entis, p. pr. See Subserve.]
Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity;
serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile,
truckling.
Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make
subservient in one kind or other. Bp.
Fell.
These ranks of creatures are subservient one to
another. Ray.
Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient
to their proselytizing spirit. Burke.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- useful in an inferior capacity
- obsequiously submissive
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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