v. [irreg. f. SUBSERVIENT + -ATE3.] trans. To make subservient or subordinate.
1893. Cronwright-Schreiner, in Farrelly, Settlem. S. Africa (1900), 90. They would selfishly and foolishly subserviate the interests of the whole Colony to their own benighted wishes.
1906. Churchill, Coniston, II. iii. The time would come when the railroads … would exterminate the boss, or at least subserviate him.
