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单词 serviable
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serviableadj.

Brit. /ˈsəːvɪəbl/, U.S. /ˈsərviəb(ə)l/
Forms: late Middle English serueabul, late Middle English seruiabyll, late Middle English seruyabull, late Middle English servyable, late Middle English–1500s seruiable, late Middle English–1500s seruyable, 1600s 1800s– serviable; Scottish pre-1700 seruyabill, pre-1700 serviabill, pre-1700 serviable, pre-1700 servyable, pre-1700 serwyabill.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French serviable.
Etymology: Originally < Middle French serviable ready or willing to serve (c1160 in Old French; French serviable ), alteration (after amiable amiable adj.) of servisable serviceable adj. In later use reborrowed < French serviable. Compare slightly later servable adj.1Sense 2 is not paralleled in French.
1. Ready or willing to serve; obedient, complaisant; obliging. Cf. servable adj.1rare after 17th cent.
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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.
2. Scottish. Belonging to the servant class. Obsolete.
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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.].

Derivatives

serviableness n. Obsolete
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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).
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