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inservient

inservient adjective: conducive; instrumental.

Adjective

inservient (comparative more inservient, superlative most inservient)

  1. (obsolete) Conducive; 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. 2
    • […] 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

Forms of inservient

comparativemore inservient
superlativemost inservient

Origin of inservient

From Latin inserviens, present participle of inservire.

Questions about inservient

What does inservient mean?
Inservient means conducive; instrumental.
What part of speech is inservient?
Inservient is an adjective.

Words near inservient in the dictionary

  1. inserved
  2. inserves
  3. inservice
  4. inserviceable
  5. inservices
  6. inservient
  7. inserving
  8. insession
  9. insessions
  10. insessor
  11. insessorial

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