Verb (used with object), : Light exercise subserves digestion.    From Dictionary.com. 

Bones differ in form according to the uses they subserve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference

What use does the nose subserve in the process of respiration?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference

Let it be shown that barbarism ought not to subserve civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Right of American Slavery] Reference

Besides being the organ of taste, what use does the tongue subserve?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference

Such records may, in various ways, subserve the cause of emancipation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference

I answer, that it is right that barbarism should subserve civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Right of American Slavery] Reference

The former includes all structure that is adapted to subserve some function.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

If not, sailing vessels will subserve all purposes except travel quite as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post] Reference

But this class of vessels never could subserve the purposes of rapid correspondence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post] Reference

It is just that barbarism should subserve civilization; that Wrong should subserve Right.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Right of American Slavery] Reference

How shall a sewing society be so modified as to best subserve the present home missionary needs?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 08, August, 1889] Reference

It appears to subserve the purpose of the more facile acquisition and digestion of food at a crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885] Reference

Collegians, and has been made to subserve the highest of all purposes -- the preaching of the Gospel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, February 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

Here, too, was a vivid thought, that he sought the lost blessing to subserve self, instead of glorifying.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

I believe this power granted and carefully guarded would tend to subserve the good order of the municipality.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

We are not hostile to them; we are merely determined that they shall be so handled as to subserve the public good.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Wealth here is a trust; it is held for use; its uses are, to subserve the high ends of Nature in the spirit of man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference

Its purpose, however, is rather to subserve the object of continuing the species, than merely its own gratification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

Fossils are indices of geological formations, and must be grouped by formations to subserve the purpose of geologists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885] Reference

In the course of time, as new discoveries are made, it is not improbable that the Peanut may subserve other valuable ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses] Reference

Thinking such a difference must subserve some use in the economy of the insect, I made a more careful examination of its webs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference

Seeds also subserve the important subsidiary purpose of supplying food for many birds and animals, more or less useful to man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference

And I also perceive that many things have been wrested from their original meaning to subserve the purposes of oppression and tyranny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference

They are all appliances of right and justice and civilization, not to make the good subserve the bad, but to make the bad subserve the good.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Right of American Slavery] Reference

Federal Government, would best subserve the interests of the Territory, when the inhabitants were few and scattered, and new to one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference

No one, it is believed, who had no set purpose to subserve, or no foregone conclusion to support, would view this argument in any other light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference

To say, then, that it is JUST that barbarism should subserve civilization is a laconical axiom, which decides a plain question of right and wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Right of American Slavery] Reference

It seems reasonable to suppose that the few isolated effigy mounds we have outside of Wisconsin were built to subserve a different purpose than those in that State.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

When its wonderful power shall be made to subserve every righteous cause -- to aid every humane effort for the promotion of man's social, civil and religious well-being.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Liberty Minstrel] Reference

Some assert that civilization should subserve barbarism; but when tried by our rule, they at once see that it is preposterous to assume that right should subserve wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Right of American Slavery] Reference

All such rules are self-evident, and grow necessarily out of the general principle which demands of the functions of the body to subserve the attainment of self-sanctification.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth] Reference

Nothing revolutionary was attempted; but a common-sense and successful effort was made in the direction of seeing that corporations are so handled as to subserve the public good.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference