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verb

Conserve v. t. (past & past part. conserved; pres. part. conserving)

To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect. "The amity which... they meant to conserve and maintain with the emperor."

To prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of.

noun

Conserve n.

Anything which is conserved; especially, a sweetmeat prepared with sugar; a confection. "I shall... study broths, plasters, and conserves, till from a fine lady I become a notable woman."

(Med.) A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar. See Confection.

A conservatory. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Conserve'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conserve" Quotes from Famous Books

... suffocation. The common sentiment of southern Christianity was expressed in that serious declaration of the Southern Presbyterian Church, during the war, of its "deep conviction of the divine appointment of domestic servitude," and of the "peculiar mission of the southern church to conserve ...

— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon

... belligerent nations. They all like to believe that their adversaries entertain only base motives, while they themselves act only on the loftiest ideal promptings. If the charge means only that every nation at war is bound to think of its own interests, to conserve its own strength, and to seize on all material gains that are within its reach, the charge is true and harmless. When two angry women quarrel in a back street, they commonly accuse each other of being amorous. They might just as well accuse each other of being human. The charge ...

— England and the War • Walter Raleigh

... navigation; and the enactment of laws for the prevention of waste in the mining and extraction of coal, oil, gas, and other minerals with a view to their wise conservation for the use of the people. The declaration closed with the timely adjuration, "Let us conserve the foundations ...

— Theodore Roosevelt and His Times - A Chronicle of the Progressive Movement; Volume 47 in The - Chronicles Of America Series • Harold Howland

... Objects. The objects of the United Lutheran Church in America are: . . . Section 1. To preserve and extend the pure teaching of the Gospel and the right administration of the Sacraments. (Eph. 4, 5, 6; the Augsburg Confession, Art. VII.) Section 2. To conserve the unity of the true faith (Eph.4, 3-16; 1 Cor. 1, 10), to guard against any departure therefrom (Rom. 16, 17), and to strengthen the Church in faith and confession. Section 3. To express outwardly the spiritual unity of the Lutheran ...

— American Lutheranism - Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General - Council, United Synod in the South) • Friedrich Bente

... with two glasses, one for sherry, the other for claret or Burgundy, and the grapes, peaches, pears, and other fruits are then passed. After the fruits go round, the sugar-plums and a little dried ginger—a very pleasant conserve ...

— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

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