v. [UNDER-1 8 a, 10 a. Cf. underserve s.v. UNDER-1 2.]

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  † 1.  To be subservient (to). Obs.

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1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. vii. § 1. Things which did but onely vnder-serue, and conduce to the … principall end.

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  2.  To serve insufficiently.

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1710.  Palmer, Proverbs, 147. He, that over-works a servant to day, must be content to be under-serv’d to morrow.

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