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<hw>Con*serv"a*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>conservatif</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.</def>

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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government as the <i>Conservative</i> party in england; -- contradistinguished from <i>Liberal</i> and <i>Radical</i>.</def>

<blockquote>We have always been conscientuously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propierty be called the <b>Conservative</b>, party. <i>Quart. Rev. (1830).</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Conservative system</col> <fld>(Mech.)</fld>, <cd>a material sustem of such a nature that after the system has undergone any series of changes, and been brought back in any manner to its original state, the whole work done by external agents on the system is equal to the whole work done by the system overcoming external forces.</cd></cs>

<i>Clerk Maxwell.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Con*serv"a*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.</def>

<blockquote>The Holy Spirit is the great <b>conservative</b> of the new life. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to <i>revolutionary</i> or <i>radical</i>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Eng. Hist.)</fld> <def>A member of the Conservative party.</def>

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<hw>Con*serv"a*tive*ness</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>The quality of being conservative.</def>

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<hw>Con`ser"va*toire`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <def>A public place of instruction in any special branch, esp. music and the arts. [See <er>Conservatory</er>, 3].</def>

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<hw>Con"ser*va`tor</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.: cf. F. <ets>conservateur</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver.</def>

<blockquote>The great Creator and <b>Conservator</b> of the world. <i>Derham.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>An officer who has charge of preserving the public peace, as a justice or sheriff.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>One who has an official charge of preserving the rights and privileges of a city, corporation, community, or estate.</def>

<blockquote>The lords of the secret council were likewise made <b>conservators</b> of the peace of the two kingdoms. <i>Clarendon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The <b>conservator</b> of the estate of an idiot. <i>Bouvier.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Conservators of the River Thames</col>, <cd>a board of comissioners instituted by Parliament to have the conservancy of the Thames.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Con*serv"a*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>conservatoire</ets>, LL. <ets>conservatorius</ets>.]</ety> <def>Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury.</def>

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<hw>Con*serv"a*to*ry</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>conservatoire</ets>, LL. <ets>conservatorium</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>That which preserves from injury.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "A <i>conservatory</i> of life."

<i>Jer. Taylor.</i>