Definition of "subserved" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of subserve. (verb)

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• "This ponderous coin subserved a purpose which our penny does to-day."
• "I therefore thought that the interest of the service would be subserved by removing one whose growing indifference might render the best-laid plans inoperative."
• "Each of these disorders have been found in otherwise cognitively normal individuals, suggesting that the lost capacities are subserved by functionally dissociable mechanisms."