Meanings
comparative more inservient · superlative most inservient
- obsoleteConducive; instrumental.
[…] although their intellectuals had not failed in the theory of truth, yet did the inservient and brutall faculties control the suggestion of reason […]
1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 1, p. 21 more example
[…] if the discourse be touching Happiness it self, why should not Happiness or Pleasure be a greater Good than Virtue, since it is the End, to the attainment whereof Virtue is but inservient?
1656, chapter 8, in Walter Charleton, transl., Epicurus’s Morals: Collected, And faithfully Englished, London: P. Davies, published 1926, page 28
Origin
- Latininserviens
- Englishinservient
From Latin inserviens, present participle of inservire.
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