单词 | serviable |
释义 | serviableadj. 1. Ready or willing to serve; obedient, complaisant; obliging. Cf. servable adj.1rare after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [adjective] > compliant ablec1384 obedientc1400 supplec1405 accordinga1425 plianta1425 serviablea1425 appliable1449 bowablec1449 applicant?c1500 pliablea1513 applying?1529 flexible?1531 maniablea1604 correspondenta1616 compliable1641 compliant1642 complaisant1647 flexile1651 complacential1658 complying1668 commode1674 complaisential1689 applicable1702 complacent1790 unprotesting1792 a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 6004 They..ben in good feith more stable And trewer and more seruiable. c1430 (c1395) G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1873) l. 979 And sche þe moste seruyable [c1405 Hengwrt seruysable] of alle Hath euery chambre arayed and his halle. a1500 (a1471) G. Ashby Active Policy Prince l. 472 in Poems (1899) 28 Also chese your servantes of goode draught, That wol attente and be seruiable. c1540 Good Lesson for Yonge Men sig. A.iv Whyle thou arte yonge, be meke and seruyable Vnto thy souereygnes. 1638 W. Haig in J. Russell Haigs of Bemersyde (1881) 219 Your loving and servyable friend. 1838 T. Moore Jrnl. 3 Sept. (1988) V. 1996 Got on by the rail-road to Dublin, accompanied by the very good-natured fellow OReilly..whom we had picked up by the way, and found most serviable through our journey. 1892 Liverpool Mercury 29 Sept. 5/3 The ordinary peasants in Switzerland are not merely ready to converse and to show themselves in every way ‘serviable’, but are commonly able to impart much interesting information on many subjects. 1951 D. Mathew Mango on Mango Tree 223 There was, thought Véronique, no one more serviable than the English upper servant. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [adjective] > of servant class serviable1612 below stairs1772 1612 in R. S. Barclay Court Bk. Orkney & Shetland (1962) 20 Act for Servandis. Item: forsamekill as thair is monie serviable persones that mareyis and takis up houssis, not haveing quhairupone to live [etc.]. DerivativesΚΠ 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement iii. f. lxiii/2 Seruyablenesse, seruiableté. 1548 W. Lynne tr. Urbanus Regius Declararation Twelue Articles Christen Faythe sig. Miij Almes is all maner of seruiablenes towardes thy neyghbour. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1425 |
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