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disˈserviceable, a.
[f. dis- 8 + serviceable, after prec. n.]
Tending to do disservice; unhelpful, hurtful, detrimental.
1644J. Goodwin Innoc. Triumph. (1645) 93 [They] are..in their natures disserviceable unto the common peace. 1710Norris Chr. Prud. vii. 311 True sound Philosophy..is no way disserviceable, but very assistant to Religion. 1817Colebrooke Algebra 199 Its presence in that multiplication would be highly disserviceable.
Hence disˈserviceableness, the quality of being disserviceable; disˈserviceably adv., in a disserviceable manner; not serviceably.
1635J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virgin 164 Hindered by..the disserviceableness of his owne horses. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams ii. (1692) 17 I did nothing disserviceably to your majesty, or the duke. 1678Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 294 All action being for some End..its aptness to be commanded or forbidden, must be founded upon its serviceableness or disserviceableness to some end. |