Subservient \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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)