Crossword clues for conservator
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conservator \Con"ser*va`tor\ (?; 277), n. [L.: cf. F. conservateur.]
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One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver.
The great Creator and Conservator of the world.
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(Law)
An officer who has charge of preserving the public peace, as a justice or sheriff.
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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.
--Clarendon.The conservator of the estate of an idiot.
--Bouvier.Conservators of the River Thames, a board of commissioners instituted by Parliament to have the conservancy of the Thames.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Anglo-French conservatour, from Latin conservator "keeper, preserver, defender," agent noun of conservare (see conserve).
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, such as a justice or sheriff. 4 (context Roman Catholicism English) A judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process. 5 A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.
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
Wikipedia
A conservator (from ), was a judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons – as universities, Catholic religious orders, chapters, the poor – from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process. Conservators were appointed as early as the 13th century.
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 protect the personae miserabiles
- Conservator-restorer, a professional who protects and cares for museum collections and other objects of cultural heritage
- Conservators who manage areas of countryside in England
- Conservator who keeps the public records in Portugal
- In electrical engineering, part of an oil-filled transformer where oil is stored
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.
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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.