Shak.
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, n. -- Serv"ice*a*bly, adv.
Serv"ice*age (?), n. Servitude. [Obs.] Fairfax.
Serv"i*ent (?), a. [L. serviens, -entis, p. pr. See Serve.]
Subordinate. [Obs. except in law.] Dyer.
Servient tenement or estate (Law), that on which the burden of a
servitude or an easement is imposed. Cf. Dominant estate, under
Dominant. Gale & Whately.
||Ser`viette" (?), n. [F.] A table napkin.
Serv"ile (?), a. [L. servile, fr. servus a servant or slave: cf. F.
servile. See Serve.] 1. Of or pertaining to a servant or slave;
befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence,
meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile
flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.
She must bend the servile knee.
Thomson.
Fearing dying pays death servile breath.
Shak.