Word Meanings - INSERVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To be of use to an end; to serve.

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• SERVER
  1. One who serves. 2. A tray for dishes; a salver. Randolph.
• SERVE
  a servant or slave, servare to protect, preserve, observe; cf. Zend har to protect, haurva protecting. Cf. Conserve, Desert merit, 1. To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service
• DISSERVE
  To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym:
• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• DESERVEDNESS
  Meritoriousness.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• INSERVE
  To be of use to an end; to serve.
• DESERVE
  1. To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John
• UNDESERVER
  One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy. Shak.
• DESERVEDLY
  According to desert ; justly.
• MISOBSERVER
  One who misobserves; one who fails to observe properly.
• UNDESERVE
  To fail to deserve. Milton.
• UNRESERVED
  Not reserved; not kept back; not withheld in part; unrestrained. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ness, n.
• PRESERVER
  1. One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another. Shak. 2. One who makes preserves of fruit. Game preserver. See under Game.
• SUBSERVE
  To serve in subordination or instrumentally; to be subservient to; to help forward; to promote. It is a great credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.
• MISSERVE
  To serve unfaithfully.
• OBSERVER
  1. One who observes, or pays attention to, anything; especially, one engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, an astronomical observer. The observed of all observers. Shak. Careful observers may foretell the hour, By
• RESERVEE
  One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with reservor.
• LIFE-PRESERVER
  An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the water. -- Life"-pre*serv`ing, a.
• TIMESERVER
  One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.