01 a. Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.
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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.