subserve
verb/səbˈsɜːv/UK/səbˈsɚv/US
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin subservire; by surface analysis, sub- + serve.
- borrowed from subservire
Definitions
To be subservient to.
- Ah, if only he had asked her to subserve him, to be his slave!
To serve to promote (an end)
To serve to promote (an end); to be useful to.
- Their principles will cease to be dear to them, whenever they shall cease to subserve the purposes of good order.
- '[…] Human laws we respect—ha, ha!—you and I, because they subserve our convenience, and just so long. When they tend to our destruction, 'tis, of course, another thing.'
To assist in carrying out.
- 'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learnt all the intrigues of policy.
- The unlearned capacities that underpin language acquisition constitute a uniquely human complex of non-linguistic dispositions and mechanisms that also subserve other cognitive functions.
The neighborhood
- neighborsubservient
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for subserve. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA