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S — Serenity to Severity (Part 3 of 13)

    5. Attend, wait on.
    6. Act, discharge the requirements of, officiate, minister.

Serve one’s time. Be an apprentice, serve one’s apprenticeship.

Service, n.

    1. Labor (for another), work, menial duties.
    2. Duty, office, business, employment.
    3. Benefit, advantage, profit, gain, good.
    4. Use, utility, avail, useful office, purpose.
    5. Homage, mark of respect.
    6. Office of devotion, religious rite.
    7. Official function.
    8. Spiritual obedience, reverence, love.
    9. Office of devotion, religious rite.
    10. Furniture.

Serviceable, a.

    1. Useful, helpful, profitable, advantageous, convenient, beneficial, available, operative.
    2. Active, diligent, officious.

Service-berry, n. June-berry, shad-bush (Amelanchier Canadensis).

Service-book, n. Missal, prayer-book, mass-book.

Servile, a.

    1. Dependent, menial, held in bondage, held in slavery, held in subjection.