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rty which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government as the Conservative party in england; -- contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical. We have always been conscientuously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propierty be called the Conservative, party. Quart.…

The quality of being conservative.

A member of the conservative party in the Church of Scotland in the latter part of the 18th century.

hind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative.

sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left.

o preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.

without regard to the heat or other molecular actions which they generate; -- opposed to conservative system.

earning to swim; a life preserver. This reform bill . . . had been used as a float by the conservative ministry. J. P. Peters.

A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over- conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by old. [Written also fogie and fogey.] [Colloq.] Notorious old bore; regular old fogy. Thackeray.

f a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827.

Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative. Milton. Carlyle.

Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy. [Political Cant, U.S.]

ts or established forms in political or religious philosophy; independent in opinion; not conservative; friendly to great freedom in the constitution or administration of government; having tendency toward democratic or republican, as distinguished from monarchical or aristocratic, forms; as, liberal thinkers; liberal…

A veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss. [Political Slang, U.S.]

A league of both sexes among the Conservatives, founded in

tions, especially such changes as are intended to level class inequalities; -- opposed to conservative. In politics they [the Independents] were, to use phrase of their own time. "Root-and-Branch men," or, to use the kindred phrase of our own, Radicals. Macaulay.

ackstone. It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial, not conservative. I. Taylor.

In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See Center, 5.

cattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians. Block system, Conservative system, etc. See under Block, Conservative, etc.

A member of the conservative party, as opposed to the progressive party which was formerly called the Whig, and is now called the Liberal, party; an earnest supporter of exsisting royal and ecclesiastical authority.