Obey vs Subserve - What's the difference?
obey | subserve | Related terms |
To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
To do as one is told.
(obsolete) To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iv:
To serve to promote (an end); to be useful to.
*
To assist in carrying out.
* Glanvill
Obey is a related term of subserve.
As verbs the difference between obey and subserve
is that obey is to do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of while subserve is to serve to promote (an end); to be useful to.obey
English
Verb
(en verb)- They were all taught by Triton, to obay / To the long raynes, at her commaundement [...].
Antonyms
* disobey * defy * rebel * resist * violate (especially rules )External links
* * 1000 English basic wordssubserve
English
Verb
(en-verb)- 'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.
