Search for crossword answers and clues
Someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person
Answer for the clue "Someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person ", 11 letters:
conservator
Alternative clues for the word conservator
Word definitions for conservator in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Conservator (female (rare) Conservatrix ) may refer to: Conservator of a Conservatorship , a person appointed by a court or regulatory authority to supervise a person or entity's financial affairs Conservator (religion) , a judge appointed by the Pope to ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Anglo-French conservatour , from Latin conservator "keeper, preserver, defender," agent noun of conservare (see conserve ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who conserves, preserves or protects something. 2 (context legal English) A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee. 3 An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) [syn: curator ] someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conservator \Con"ser*va`tor\ (?; 277), n. [L.: cf. F. conservateur.] One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver. The great Creator and Conservator of the world. --Derham. (Law) An officer who has charge of preserving the public ...
Usage examples of conservator.
Magic Mittens, do you want to hear about little James B suing his father as guardian over the royalties and a local court appointing his lawyer J Harret Ruth as his conservator?
But the conduct of the novelists and the painters makes the task of the conservators of society doubly perplexing.
His primary object was to establish a firm theocracy, to make his people the conservators of the doctrine of the Divine Unity, the basis upon which Christianity was hereafter to rest.
But the senator was confined to the administration of justice: the Capitol, the treasury, and the government of the city and its territory, were intrusted to the three conservators, who were changed four times in each year: the militia of the thirteen regions assembled under the banners of their respective chiefs, or caporioni.
The conservators think it dates from the time of the events it describes, or closely after, and the pictures it had were pasted-in flatpics.
The conservators couldn't find anything in the vid archives corresponding, and with maximal image-boosting, this is the best we could get .
But the senator was confined to the administration of justice: the Capitol, the treasury, and the government of the city and its territory, were intrusted to the three conservators, who were changed four times in each year: the militia of the thirteen regions assembled under the banners of their respective chiefs, or caporioni.
Simon, a great man in his way, had divided his followers into hundreds of squadrons [hyperlink] Hadrian in Military Dress Bust from Crete, Paris, Louvre [hyperlink] Trophies from the Temple of the Divine Hadrian, Rome Rome, Museum of the Palace of the Conservators [hyperlink] Letter of Simon Bar-Kochba Dead Sea Manuscript, Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem posted on mountain ridges or placed in ambush in caverns and abandoned quarries, or even hidden in houses of the teeming suburbs of the cities.
Anna Gruetzner Robins, paper conservator Anne Kennett, and curator of the Sickert archives Vada Hart.
Anna Gruetzner Robins and paper conservator Anne Kennett examined the originals at the Public Record Office (PRO) in June 2002.