subserve
verb (used with object)
to be useful or instrumental in promoting (a purpose, action, etc.).
have subserved
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present perfectof subserve.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Could the apostles have subserved the cause of freedom more directly, intelligibly, and effectually, than to enjoin the principles, and sentiments, and habits, in which freedom consists—constituting its living root and fruitful germ!
From The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society
A dried and even tanned hide, could it have been fitted to her person with sufficient exactness, would have subserved nearly the same purposes.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
By St. Paul! if he sought to persuade me to my injury, the Fates have subserved his wishes well.
From Beatrix of Clare by Clarence F. Underwood
But they would subserve, they have subserved, the interests of a true national development.
From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by John William Burgess
For if the passage had only given the meridian plane, but without permitting the astronomer to observe the southing of any fixed star, it would have subserved only one-half its purposes as a meridional instrument.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various
