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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Con·ser·va·tor n.
 1. One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver.
    The great Creator and Conservator of the world.   --Derham.
 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.   --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.
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