Chapter Consecrater to Conservatory of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Conservable
(Con*serv"a*ble) a. [L. conservabilitis.] Capable of being preserved from decay or injury.

Conservancy
(Con*serv"an*cy) n. Conservation, as from injury, defilement, or irregular use.

[An act was] passed in 1866, for vesting in the Conservators of the River Thames the conservancy of the Thames and Isis.
Mozley & W.

Conservant
(Con*serv"ant) a. [L. conservans, p. pr.] Having the power or quality of conservation.

Conservation
(Con`ser*va"tion) n. [L. conservatio: cf. F. conservation.] The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.

A step necessary for the conservation of Protestantism.
Hallam.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Burke.

Conservation of areas (Astron.), the principle that the radius vector drawn from a planet to the sun sweeps over equal areas in equal times. — Conservation of energy, or Conservation of force (Mech.), the principle that the total energy of any material system is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any action between the parts of the system, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible. Clerk Maxwell.

Conservational
(Con`ser*va"tion*al) a. Tending to conserve; preservative.

Conservatism
(Con*serv"a*tism) n. [For conservatism.] The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.

Conservative
(Con*serv"a*tive) a. [Cf. F. conservatif.]

1. Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.

2. Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.

3. Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England; — contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical.

We have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party.
Quart. Rev.

Conservative system (Mech.), a material system 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. Clerk Maxwell.

Conservative
(Con*serv"a*tive) n.

1. One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.

The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new life.
Jer. Taylor.

2. One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; — opposed to revolutionary or radical.

3. (Eng. Hist.) A member of the Conservative party.

Conservativeness
(Con*serv"a*tive*ness), a. The quality of being conservative.