† inservientadj.
Obsolete.
1. Serving, servile.
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the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [adjective]
go-by-ground?a1300
thrall1398
abjectc1430
manly?c1430
servicious1440
serviceable1483
servile1537
tame1563
slavish1565
demiss1572
submissive1572
cringing1579
fawning1585
incrouching?1593
vassal1594
scraping1599
obsequious1602
spaniel1606
observing1609
deprostrate1610
supplea1616
vernile1623
shrugging1629
wormy1640
compliable1641
thrall-like1641
obeisant1642
inservient1646
truckling1656
cringeling1693
benecking1705
subservient1714
footman-like1776
bingeing1805
sidling1821
toadying1863
crawlsome1904
toadyish1909
crawling1941
ass-kissing1942
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. i. 3 Although their intellectualls had not failed in the theorie of truth, yet did the inservient and brutall faculties controle the suggestion of reason. View more context for this quotation
2.
a. Serving or subservient to some end; serviceable, conducive, assisting.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [adjective] > auxiliary or subsidiary
subsidiary1543
contributary1567
serving1567
auxiliar1583
contributory1594
auxiliatory1599
auxiliary1605
subministering1606
subserving1621
auxilianta1631
inservient1646
adminiculary1653
adminicular1660
accessorial1726
secondary1751
tributary1764
contributive1793
society > authority > subjection > service > [adjective] > serving or performing a service
servingc1384
ministrant1558
inservient1646
officiala1682
ministering1764
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxi. 158 Any parts inservient to that intention. View more context for this quotation
1675 E. Wilson Spadacrene Dunelmensis 41 A Caput mortuum..inservient for mixing with cicatrizing Plaisters.
1688 R. Boyle Disquis. Final Causes iv. 197 The fabrick of the mouth and other parts inservient to the reception of aliments.
1802 J. Jamieson Use Sacred Hist. II. iii. xi. 331 That part of man's body which is inservient to generation.
b. Accessary to, forming an accessary of.
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1709 Philos. Trans. 1708–09 (Royal Soc.) 26 171 A Brass Pommel, inservient to a Sea-coal Grate, weighing nine Ounces.
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