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subserve

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sub·serve  (sb-sûrv)
tr.v. sub·served, sub·serv·ing, sub·serves
To serve to promote (an end); be useful to.
[Latin subservre : sub-, sub- + servre, to serve; see serve.]
subserve [səbˈsɜːv]
vb (tr)
1. to be helpful or useful to
2. Obsolete to be subordinate to
[from Latin subservīre to be subject to, from sub- + servīre to serve]
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Verb1.subserve - be helpful or useful
aid, assist, help - give help or assistance; be of service; "Everyone helped out during the earthquake"; "Can you help me carry this table?"; "She never helps around the house"
Translations
subserve [səbˈsɜːv] VT → ayudar, favorecer
subserve
vt (form) → dienen (+dat), → dienlich or förderlich sein (+dat) (form)
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Nor, perhaps, will it fail to be eventually perceived, that behind those forms and usages, as it were, he sometimes masked himself; incidentally making use of them for other and more private ends than they were legitimately intended to subserve.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
As he possessed no higher attribute, and neither sacrificed nor vitiated any spiritual endowment by devoting all his energies and ingenuities to subserve the delight and profit of his maw, it always pleased and satisfied me to hear him expatiate on fish, poultry, and butcher's meat, and the most eligible methods of preparing them for the table.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
It by no means follows, however, that the incitements of Passion' or the precepts of Duty, or even the lessons of Truth, may not be introduced into a poem, and with advantage; for they may subserve incidentally, in various ways, the general purposes of the work: but the true artist will always contrive to tone them down in proper subjection to that Beauty which is the atmosphere and the real essence of the poem.
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