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Definition of Subserves
1. subserve [v] - See also: subserve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subserves
Literary usage of Subserves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays on the Principles of Morality: And on the Private and Political by Jonathan Dymond (1845)
"Political Power is rightly exercised only when it subserves the welfare of the
community"—Interference with other nations—Present expedients for present ..."
2. Essays on the Principles of Morality and on the Private and Political Rights by Jonathan Dymond (1896)
"Political Power is rightly exercised only when it subserves the welfare of the
community"—Interference with ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Surveying and Boundaries by Frank Emerson Clark (1922)
"Retain description which best subserves intention. —Where the boundaries mentioned
in a deed are inconsistent, those are to be retained which best subserve ..."
4. The Evolution of Modern Money by William Warrand Carlile (1901)
"... of purchasing power as its primary and essential use, we will then have to
esteem that description of money as the best which best subserves that end. ..."
5. Essays on the Principles of Morality: And on the Private and Political by Jonathan Dymond (1834)
"POLITICAL POWER IS RIGHTLY EXERCISED ONLY WHEN IT Subserves THE WELFARE OF THE
COMMUNITY." This proposition is consequent of the truth of the last. ..."
6. Creation Centred in Christ by Henry Grattan Guinness (1896)
"... and the beasts of the field afford food for his table, or otherwise serve and
minister to his necessities. 5. The material world subserves the ..."
7. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1887)
"WHAT PURPOSE THE LAW Subserves. What object, then, can this man gain by accounting
the law and the teaching to be the grace whereby we are helped to work ..."
8. Revelation by Isaac Morgan Atwood (1889)
"ENDS WHICH REVELATION Subserves. We turn now to a question of high practical
concern : What particular ends does an his- ..."
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