Subserve
Origin
Latin subservire
Full definition of subserve
Verb
- To serve to promote (an end); to be useful to.
- 1840, w, s:A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government, Their principles will cease to be dear to them, whenever they shall cease to subserve the purposes of good order.
- To assist in carrying out.
- Glanvill'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.