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Conservator   Listen
noun
Conservator  n.  
1.
One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver. "The great Creator and Conservator of the world."
2.
(Law)
(a)
An officer who has charge of preserving the public peace, as a justice or sheriff.
(b)
One who has an official charge of preserving the rights and privileges of a city, corporation, community, or estate. "The lords of the secret council were likewise made conservators of the peace of the two kingdoms." "The conservator of the estate of an idiot."
Conservators of the River Thames, a board of commissioners instituted by Parliament to have the conservancy of the Thames.





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"Conservator" Quotes from Famous Books



... to Mr. Horace Traubel, by whose kind permission "Little Leafy Brothers," in our February issue, was reprinted from "The Conservator," for not giving proper acknowledgment. Also to our readers for ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... Professor Pickering, renowned astronomer, encouraged the amateur societies of star-observers, and others. The amateurs in the background, disinterested and unselfish, support appropriations by legislatures for even abstruse public work. The amateur is the embodiment of the best in the common life, the conservator of aspirations, the fulfillment of democratic freedom. I hope pomology will not lag in this respect. In all lines I hope that professionalism will not subjugate the man who follows a subject for the love of it rather than for the gain of it or for the pride of it. In horticulture, ...
— The Apple-Tree - The Open Country Books—No. 1 • L. H. Bailey
... interesting feature of comparison and study. In the grove, you can demonstrate the decomposition of the fallen leaves, the formation of humus and its value to the tree. The importance of the forest soil as a conservator of water and its relation to stream flow and soil erosion can be brought out at this juncture. An eroded bank and a slope covered with trees and shrubs would provide excellent models for this study. ...
— Studies of Trees • Jacob Joshua Levison
... comitatum septem componunt baroniae, de Nonanto in Bajocassino, de Thibervilla, de Glos et Courthona, de Gaceio, de Touqua, de Canapvilla et de Bonnavilla la Louvet, omnes in dioecesi. Episcopus praeterea conservator est privilegiorum academiae Cadomensis. Dignitates omnes et praebendas ecclesiae Lexoviensis confert, excepto decano qui eligitur a capitulo, nec a quoquam confirmatur. Praeter decanum, capitulum octo constat dignitatibus, cantore, ...
— Architectural Antiquities of Normandy • John Sell Cotman


Words linked to "Conservator" :   curator, steward, conservator-ward relation, custodian, keeper


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