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Webster 1913 Edition
Serviceable
Serv′ice-a-ble
,Adj.
1.
Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous.
“Serviceable to religion and learning”. Atterbury.
“Serviceable tools.” Macaulay.
I know thee well, a
serviceable
villain. Shakespeare
2.
Prepared for rendering service; capable of, or fit for, the performance of duty; hence, active; diligent.
Courteous he was, lowly, and
servysable
. Chaucer.
Bright-hearnessed angels sit in order
serviceable
. Milton.
Seeing her so sweet and
– serviceable
. Tennnyson.
Serv′ice-a-ble-ness
, Noun.
Serv′ice-a-bly
, adv.
Webster 1828 Edition
Serviceable
SERV'ICEABLE
,Adj.
1. That does service; that promotes happiness, interest, advantage or any good; useful; beneficial; advantageous. Rulers may be very serviceable to religion by their example. The attentions of my friends were very serviceable to me when abroad. Rain and manure are serviceable to land.
2. Active; diligent; officious.
I know thee well, a serviceable villain. Shak. [Unusual.]