1. (a.) Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions\; opposed to change or innovation.

2. (a.) Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.

3. (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.

4. (n.) One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.

5. (n.) One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.

6. (n.) A member of the Conservative party.

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