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Serviceably

Serviceable \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. [1913 Webster] -- Serv"ice*a*ble*ness, n. -- Serv"ice*a*bly, adv.

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serviceably

adv. In a serviceable manner.

Usage examples of "serviceably".

Similarly some of the fresh stalks of the plant, and its unripe berries, as well as the unpeeled tubers cut up as described, if infused for some hours in cold water, will make a liquor in which the folded linen of a compress may be loosely rung out, and applied most serviceably under waterproof tissue, or a double layer of dry flannel.