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Subserve
//səbˈsɚv// verb
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To be subservient to.
"Ah, if only he had asked her to subserve him, to be his slave!"
- 2 be helpful or useful wordnet
- 3 To serve to promote (an end); to be useful to.
"Calculating by spherical trigonometry, and assuming the same obliquity, I obtain 3 dundas and 40 pulas for the ascensional arc, giving a difference in time of 3 pulas, or about one of our minutes; an error so small, that even were the Indian astronomer aware of its existence he would disregard it, satisfied that the practical purposes which his labours subserve, are, notwithstanding, carried out with sufficient accuracy."
- 4 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."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin subservire; by surface analysis, sub- + serve.
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