(a.) Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state,
or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
(a.) Tending or disposed to maintain existing
institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
(a.) 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.
(n.) One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury,
innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
(n.) One who desires to maintain existing institutions and
customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed
to revolutionary or radical.
(n.) A member of the Conservative party.
