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Example sentences for "subserves"

Lexicographically close words:
subsections; subsequent; subsequently; subserve; subserved; subservience; subserviency; subservient; subserving; subset
  1. Whilst the formation of spermatozoa subserves the generative act, the function of the interstitial gland is to prepare substances which pass into the lymph or blood-stream, and give rise to the development of the secondary sexual characters.

  2. It is no longer a restless agent, without definite aim; it has a large field of exertion assigned to it, and it subserves those social interests which it would naturally trouble.

  3. But if knowledge about an object subserves acquaintance with it, the converse is no less true.

  4. If knowledge of the location and price of a tennis ball subserves my use of it and acquaintance with it, the latter in turn subserves my knowledge about it in an indefinite number of respects.

  5. In a great measure because it subserves utility, and is therefore dependent upon the necessities of life, does architecture present to us through form the human spirit.

  6. The physical subserves the spiritual, and even in the physical the two are united.

  7. Besides the poetry in this musical stream, there is much practical utility connected with its presence, as it subserves the purpose of city laundry, where most of the soiled clothes are cleansed.

  8. With a little assistance he has built a palmetto and pole house, which subserves the purpose of sitting-room and bed-room.

  9. A third kind of fibre--the oblique--subserves retention; the way in which this fibre is disposed in different coats.

  10. As a matter of fact one and the same stoma subserves two distinct faculties, and these exercise their pull at different times in opposite directions--first it subserves the pull of the liver and, during catharsis, that of the drug.

  11. But if your expression "at once" means that in one and the same animal a single organ subserves the transport of matter in opposite directions, and if it is this which disturbs you, consider inspiration and expiration.

  12. By opening the road to wealth and fame it subserves the purposes of avarice and ambition; society is led captive by its charms, and sometimes bound in fetters by its powers.

  13. Nothing is deduced from it; and the ether merely subserves the purpose of satisfying the demands of the materialistic theory.

  14. It subserves all the necessary purposes of giving a definite meaning to the concept of the properties of nature at an instant.

  15. Professor Virchow's meaning, I admit, required illustration; but I do not clearly see how the quotation from me subserves this purpose.

  16. I have thus far dwelt upon the study of Physics as an agent of intellectual culture; but like other things in Nature, this study subserves more than a single end.

  17. His fine critical sense works in the service of a positive aim, subserves a harmonizing tendency; he takes no pleasure in breaking to pieces, but in adjusting, limiting, and combining.

  18. The ideal of a cosmopolitan legal condition is the goal of history, in which caprice and conformity to law are one, in so far as the conscious free action of individuals subserves an unconscious end prescribed by the world-spirit.

  19. While love rules in the family, in civil society each aims at the satisfaction of his private wants, and yet, in working for himself, subserves the good of the whole.

  20. By the pessimist, conduct which subserves life cannot consistently be called good: to call it good implies some form of optimism.

  21. The absence of details in the records, far from being an impeachment of this completeness, subserves to its expression, because the power given is summed up in a general head, which embraces all particulars under it.

  22. The paramount human problem of the last hundred years has been the great, as yet unanswered, question whether the strongest man on earth is he who stands most alone or he who subserves the greatest good of the greatest number.

  23. The mucous discharge which is thus observed, subserves a very important object in lubricating the parts and relaxing the neck of the womb and the vagina.

  24. In diphtheria or typhoid fever mind cure subserves no purpose; the treatment must be avowedly antiseptic and stimulating.

  25. Then a gallows must be beautiful because it subserves the noble end of ridding the world of malefactors?

  26. A full reply to your question would need a ream of paper and a quarter of quills," I answered; "but I think I may venture so far as to say that whatever subserves a noble end must in itself be beautiful.

  27. For a being endowed with intelligence subserves another intelligent being only with the non-intelligent part belonging to it, viz.

  28. Against the further objection that the omnipresent Brahman cannot be viewed as bounded by heaven we remark that the assignment, to Brahman, of a special locality is not contrary to reason because it subserves the purpose of devout meditation.

  29. Desire subserves Evolution, and it is Right.

  30. That is Right which subserves Evolution; that is Wrong which antagonises it.

  31. We have to realize, not only that the question of love subserves the question of breed, but also that love has a proper, a necessary, even a socially wholesome claim, to stand by itself and to be regarded for its own worth.

  32. Matter in its subtle state subserves ends, in so far only as it is dependent on the Supreme Person who is the cause of all.

  33. We thus conclude that the reference, in question and answer, to the individual soul subserves the end of instruction being given about what is different from that soul, i.

  34. The injunction to kill the goat for Agnîshomau intimates that the killing of the animal subserves the accomplishment of the sacrifice, while the injunction not to 'harm' teaches that such harming has disastrous consequences.

  35. Matter in its subtle state) subserves an end, on account of its dependence on him (viz.

  36. It subserves the purpose of thought; as in the case of the feet.

  37. It is only right when it subserves the great end of justice; and if it fail to answer this end it is then worse than worthless.

  38. When freedom subserves this end, it is a good; when it defeats this end, it is an evil.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subserves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.