v. Obs. [a. OF. a(s)servir to serve, deserve:—L. asservīre, f. ad to + servīre to serve.]
1. a. To serve, attend to (a person). b. (?) To serve up (a dish).
c. 1330. MS. Land. No. 108, 104 b. Þare he miȝte beo al one To aservi Godes wille.
c. 1470. Househ. Ord. (1790), 66. Nor to suffer theyre owne servauntes muche conversaunt … whyles the Kinge specially shal be asservinge.
a. 1500. To serve a Lord, in Babees Bk., 369. The kerver … most asserve [? assewe] every disshe in his degre.
1731. Bailey, Asserve, to serve to.
2. To deserve, merit.
c. 1325. MS. Coll. Trin. Oxon., 57 (Halliw.). Ich thonky the … That ich it have aserved In atte the ȝatis to wende.
a. 1400. Leg. Rood (1871), 147. Vche mon schal haue as þei a serue.
