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adjective

Serviceable adj.

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". "Serviceable tools." "I know thee well, a serviceable villain."

Prepared for rendering service; capable of, or fit for, the performance of duty; hence, active; diligent. "Courteous he was, lowly, and servysable." "Bright-hearnessed angels sit in order serviceable." "Seeing her so sweet and serviceable."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Serviceable" Quotes from Famous Books

... me, good Master, you shall not sow your seed in barren ground, for I hope to return you an increase answerable to your hopes; but however, you shal find me obedient, and thankful, and serviceable ...

— The Compleat Angler - Facsimile of the First Edition • Izaak Walton

... tired, was leaning back against her pillows, her bandaged foot lying on the bed and the other foot swinging over the side. Her short, blue-serge skirt was at its shortest and made no pretence at hiding her serviceable blue knickers, from which emerged a pair of useful girl-guidish legs, suitably clad in black merino stockings and lace-up shoes. Her bobbed hair was for the moment rough and tumbled, and she still held her flags spread out on either side of her. No one could have looked less ...

— The Happy Adventurers • Lydia Miller Middleton

... there are scarce hands enow in the country to carry on either of these affairs. Now, these vagabonds might not only by this means be kept out of harm's way, but be rendered serviceable to the nation. Nor is there any need of transporting them beyond seas, for if any are refractory they should be sent to our stannaries and other mines, to our coal works and other places where hard labour is required. ...

— Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business • Daniel Defoe

... and serviceable, on a narrow side street so near to Park Row that the big table in the rear rattles its dishes when the presses begin their seismic rumblings, in the daily effort to shake the world. Here gather the pick and choice of New York journalism, while still ...

— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... Leigh Hunt left Chelsea, and went to live at Kensington, but Carlyle never altogether lost sight of him, and on several occasions was able to do him very serviceable acts of kindness; as, for instance, in writing certain Memoranda concerning him with the view of procuring from Government a small provision for Leigh Hunt's declining years, which we may as ...

— On the Choice of Books • Thomas Carlyle

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