have subserved
- present perfect of subserve.
Example Sentences
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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 Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
It would not have comported with a friendly policy in Spain herself to have established a custom-house there, since it could have subserved no other purpose than to elude our revenue law.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 2, part 1: James Monroe by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)
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
Old ideas linger after they have subserved their purposes.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
But they would subserve, they have subserved, the interests of a true national development.
From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by Burgess, John William
