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形容詞

inservient (comparative more inservient, superlative most inservient)

1. (obsolete) Conducive; instrumental.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica‎, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 1, p. 2:

     […] although their intellectuals had not failed in the theory of truth, yet did the inservient and brutall faculties control the suggestion of reason […]

   • 1656, chapter 8, in Walter Charleton, transl., Epicurus’s Morals: Collected, And faithfully Englished‎, London: P. Davies, published 1926, page 28:

     […] if the discourse be touching Happiness it self, why should not Happiness or Pleasure be a greater Good than Virtue, since it is the End, to the attainment whereof Virtue is but inservient?

参照

• “inservient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• interveins