Dictionary entry

Serviceable

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Serv″ice‐a‐ble (?), a. 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. 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.