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One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director. Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. Dryden.

Having the property of conducting. [R.]

Of the nature of familiar talk; in the form of a dialogue. Weever.

Pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats. [Obs.] Beaumont.

A confederate. Grafton.

One who, or that which, confirms; a confirmer. Sir T. Browne.

Serving to confirm; corroborative. A fact confirmatory of the conclusion. I. Taylor.

One who confiscates. Burke.

Effecting confiscation; characterized by confiscations. "Confiscatory and exterminatory periods." Burke.

An apparatus for taking the conformation of anything, as of the head for fitting a hat, or, in craniometry, finding the largest horizontal area of the head.

One who offers congratulation. Milton.

Expressive of sympathetic joy; as, a congratulatory letter.

One who guesses or conjectures. [Obs.] A great conjector at other men by their writings. Milton.

One who swears or is sworn with others; one bound by oath with others; a compurgator. Burrill.

A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.

One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes. [Written also consecrater.]

Of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory. The consecratory prayer. Bp. Burnet.

One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver. The great Creator and Conservator of the world. Derham.

That which preserves from injury. [Obs.] "A conservatory of life." Jer. Taylor.

One who considers. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.