subserve
verb (used with object)
to be useful or instrumental in promoting (a purpose, action, etc.).
had subserved
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past perfectof subserve.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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For more than twenty years magneto-electricity had subserved its first and noblest purpose of augmenting our knowledge of the powers of nature.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
