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单词 subserviate
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subserviatev.

Brit. /səbˈsəːvɪeɪt/, U.S. /səbˈsərviˌeɪt/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: subservient adj., -ate suffix3.
Etymology: Irregularly < subservi- (in subservient adj.) + -ate suffix3.
transitive. To make subservient or subordinate.
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society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] > make subordinate or subservient
abeyOE
subjugate1566
subordinate1597
subordain1598
asservile1619
subserviatea1676
subalternize1851
a1676 J. Dunton Dialogical Disc. Adonibezeck 70 in Heavenly Pastime (1685) The great, the wise Creator of the Universe, has subserviated those glorious Bodies to the Terrean sedentary Globe.
a1713 G. Trosse Life (1715) iii. ix. 164 Your subserviating your Earthly Employments, and Worldly Affairs to your Heavenly and Eternal Concerns.
1893 S. C. Cronwright-Schreiner in M. J. Farrelly Settlem. S. Afr. (1900) 90 They would selfishly and foolishly subserviate the interests of the whole Colony to their own benighted wishes.
1906 W. Churchill Coniston ii. iii The time would come when the railroads..would exterminate the boss, or at least subserviate him.
1958 C. Argyris in Symp. on Preventive & Social Psychiatry 209 Too often the importance of integrating existing research is subserviated to so-called individual research.
2010 R. Beamish Promise of Sociol. i. ii. 47 The daily grind that subserviates individuals to the organization and teaches them their place in the hierarchy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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