Definition of "subserves" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of subserve. (verb)

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• "The only practical purpose which it now subserves in American politics is to give enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it “in wind,” and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy, from having nothing to whip."
• "Language is a third use which Nature subserves to man."
• "Kant's insight -- in some sense his only insight, since everything else subserves this -- is put very roughly that if it is rational to believe:"