\Sub*serv"i*ent\, a. [L. subserviens, -entis, p. pr.
See {Subserve}.]
Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior
capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence,
servile, truckling.
      Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make
      subservient in one kind or other.        --Bp. Fell.
      These ranks of creatures are subservient one to
      another.                                 --Ray.
      Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their
      proselytizing spirit.                    --Burke.