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general command; if I pay money to a banker’s servant, 
the banker is answerable for it; if a steward lets lease of a 
farm without the owner’s knowledge, the 'owner must stand 
to the bargain : a wife, friend, or relation, that used to 
transact business for a man, are, quoad hoc, his servants, and 
the princip? r.ust answer for their conduct. Farther, if a 
servant, by his negligence, does any damage' to a stranger, 
the master shall answer for his neglect: if a smith’s servant 
lames a horse while he is shoeing him, an action lies against 
the master and not against the servant. A master is charge¬ 
able if any of his family layeth or carrieth any thing out of 
his house into the street, or common highway, to the 
damage of an individual, or the common nuisance of his 
majesty’s liege people. In case of fire the servant is account¬ 
able. B/ackst. Comm. book. i. 
To SE'RVANT, v. a. To subject. Not in use. ' 
My affairs 
Are servanted to others: though I owe 
My revenge properly, remission lies 
In Volscian breasts. Shakspearc. 
To SERVE, v. a. [servio , Latin.] To work for.—Be¬ 
cause thou art my brother, should’st thou therefore serve me 
for nought? Genesis. —To attend at command. 
A goddess among gods ador’d, and serv'd 
By angels numberless, thy daily train. Milton. 
To obey servilely or meanly. 
When wealthy, shew thy wisdom not to be 
To wealth a servant, but make wealth serve thee. Denham. 
To supply with food ceremoniously. 
Others, pamper’d in their shameless pride, 
Are serv'd in plate, and in their chariots ride. Dry den. 
To bring meat as a menial attendant: with in or up: with 
in, as meat dressed in the kitchen is brought into another 
room; with up, as the room of repast is commonly higher 
than the kitchen.—Bid them cover the table, serve in the 
meat, and we will come in to dinner. Shahspeare. 
Some part he roasts; then serves it up so drest, 
And bids me welcome to this humble feast: 
Mov’d with disdain, 
I with avenging flames the palace burn’d. Dryden. 
To be subservient or subordinate to. 
Bodies bright and greater should not serve 
The less not bright. Milton. 
To supply with any thing: as, the curate served two 
churches.—They that serve the city shall serve it out of 
all the tribes of Israel. Ezek. —To obey in military ac¬ 
tions: as, he served the king in three campaigns.—To be 
sufficient to.—If any subject, interest or fancy has recom¬ 
mended, their reasoning is after their fashion; it serves their 
turn. Locke. —To be of use to; to assist; to promote.— 
When a storm of a sad mischance beats upon our spirits, 
turn it into some advantage, by observing where it can serve 
another end, either of religion or prudence. Bp. Taylor. 
He consider’d every creature— 
Most opportune might serve his wiles. Milton. 
To help by good offices. 
Shall he thus serve his country, and the muse 
The tribute of her just applause refuse ? Tate. 
To comply with; to submit to.—They think herein -we 
serve the time, because thereby we either hold or seek pre¬ 
ferment. Hooker. —To satisfy; to content.—As the former 
empty plea served the sottish Jews, this equally serves these 
to put them into a fool’s paradise, by feeding their hopes, 
without changing their lives. South. —Nothing would serve 
them then but riding. L'Estrange. 
One half-pint bottle serves them both to dine, 
And is at once their vinegar and wine. Pope. 
To stand instead of any thing to one. 
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy. 
And in the cunning, truth itself’s a lye. Pope. 
S E R 
[Se servir de, French.] To Serve himself of. To 
make use of. An unadopted Gallicism.—They would serve 
themselves of this form. Taylor. —I will serve myself of 
this concession. Chillingworth. —It is much more easy for 
men to serve their own ends of those principles, which they 
do not put into men, but find there. 1'i/lotson. —To treat; 
to requite: in an ill sense: as, he served me ungratefully.— 
To worship the Supreme Being.—Matters hid—leave thou 
to God; Him serve and fear. Milton. 
To Serve a ■warrant. To seize an offender, and carry 
to justice. 
To Serve an office. To discharge any public duty. 
To SERVE, v. n. To be a servant, or slave.—Israel 
served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep. Hosea .— 
To be in subjection.—Thou hast made me to serve with 
thy sins; thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. Isa. 
—To attend; to wait.—Martha was cumbered about much 
serving, and said. Lord, dost thou not care that my sister 
hath left me to serve alone? St. Luke. —To engage in the 
duties of war under command. 
Both more or less have given him the revolt; 
And none serve with him but constrained things, 
Whose hearts are absent too. Shakspeare. 
Many noble gentlemen came out of all parts of Italy, who 
had before been great commanders, but now served as pri¬ 
vate gentlemen without pay. Knolles. —To produce the end 
desired.—The look bewrayed, that as she used these orna¬ 
ments, not for herself, but to prevail with another, so she 
feared that all would not serve. Sidney. —To be sufficient 
for a purpose. 
Take it, she said; and when your needs require, 
This little brand will serve to light your fire. Dryden. 
To suit; to be convenient. 
As occasion serves, this noble queen 
And prince shall follow with a fresh supply. Shakspeare. 
To conduce; to be of use. 
Who lessens thee, against his purpose serves 
To manifest the more thy might. Milton. 
Fashion is, for the most part, nothing but the ostentation 
of riches; and therefore the high price of what serves to that, 
rather increases than lessens its vent. Locke .—To officiate 
or minister: as, he served at the public dinner. 
In sea language, To serve a rope, is to lay spun-yarn, 
rope-yarn, sennit, a leather, a piece of canvas, or the like 
upon it, which is rolled fast round about the rope, to keep it 
from fretting or galling in any place. 
SERVERETTE, a small town of the south of France, 
department of the Lozere. Population 9000; 11 miles 
north-by-west of Mende. 
SERVETISTS, a sect said to be the disciples or followers 
of Michael Servetus, the ringleader of the Anti-Trinitarians 
of his age: but Servetus, in reality, had not any disciples, 
as being burnt, together with his books, before his dogmas 
had time to take root. But the name Servetists has been 
given to some of the modern Anti-Trinitarians, because 
they follow the footsteps he had marked out. 
SERVETUS (Michael), was born at Villanueva, in Arra- 
gon, in 1509. His father was a notary-public, and he him¬ 
self was sent to the academy of Toulouse, where he studied 
the law during the space of three years. About this period 
his attention was turned to the study of the sacred scriptures, 
to which he was probably excited by the reformers of that 
day. He soon discovered many errors and abuses in the 
church of Rome, in the tenets of which he had been brought 
up, and laid then the foundation of his opinions concerning 
the doctrine of the Trinity. He fixed his residence at Basil, 
in the year 1530. Here he was on a footing of friendly 
intimacy with CEcolampadius, with whom he often con¬ 
versed about various religious topics, but to whose peculiar 
opinions he would not yield, in the smallest degree, any 
notions which he had previously adopted. An unbending 
disposition with regard to matters of small moment, alienated 
many 
