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English
Etymology
From Latin inserviens, present participle of inservire.
Adjective
inservient (comparative more inservient, superlative most inservient)
- (obsolete) Conducive; instrumental.
1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 1, p. 2:[…] although their intellectuals had not failed in the theory of truth, yet did the inservient and brutall faculties control the suggestion of reason […]
1656, chapter 8, in Walter Charleton, transl., Epicurus’s Morals: Collected, And faithfully Englished, London: P. Davies, published 1926, page 28:[…] 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?
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Latin
Verb
īnservient
- third-person plural future active indicative of īnserviō