inservo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

in-servo, 1, v. a.

I To attend to , observe (a favorite word of Statius): gemit, inservante noverca, Liber, Stat. Th. 10, 886: volucres, id. ib. 8, 194: fata, id. ib. 6, 935.—

II To keep : sagittae volitantes vires integras inservabant, Amm. 31, 15, 11.