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verb

Conserve v. t. (past & past part. conserved; pres. part. conserving)

To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect. "The amity which... they meant to conserve and maintain with the emperor."

To prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of.

noun

Conserve n.

Anything which is conserved; especially, a sweetmeat prepared with sugar; a confection. "I shall... study broths, plasters, and conserves, till from a fine lady I become a notable woman."

(Med.) A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar. See Confection.

A conservatory. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Conserve'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conserve" Quotes from Famous Books

... mine; I know likewise, that the Sea is the Scene most proper to make great changes in, and that some have named it the Theatre of inconstancy; but as all excess is vicious, I have made use of it but moderately, for to conserve true resembling: Now the same design is the cause also, that my Heros is not oppressed with such a prodigious quantity of accidents, as arrive unto some others, for that according to my sense, the same is far from true resemblance, the life of no man having ever been so cross'd. ...

— Prefaces to Fiction • Various

... Francisco Bay. Why shouldn't the composers put it into music. We're sick of the song of the huntsman by the brasses, the strings and the wood instruments. With Whitman we exclaim: "Come, Muse, migrate from Aeonia," and come out here to the West, and conserve the symphony of the bay which is already ...

— Vignettes of San Francisco • Almira Bailey

... or allies, following the example of Rome.... A state too large in itself, or together with its dependent territories, finally decays and its free form reverts to a tyrannical one, the principles which should conserve it relax, and at last it evolves into despotism. The characteristic of the small republics is permanency; that of the large ones is varied, but always tends to an empire. Almost all of the former have been of long duration; among the latter Rome alone lived for some centuries, ...

— Simon Bolivar, the Liberator • Guillermo A. Sherwell

... particular time or creed. We must have priests as well as prophets. The prophet of a new faith begins his mission by breaking the images of the priests before him and is succeeded by his own priests who set up new images and dogmas wherewith to conserve the new-found creed until it in turn becomes too old when, in the never-ceasing course of evolution, the law of variation bids a new prophet arise. The priest must needs be to preserve the world from the anarchy ...

— The Black Man's Place in South Africa • Peter Nielsen

... conserve and to continue, which are silent and insensible effects: innovation is of great lustre; but 'tis interdicted in this age, when we are pressed upon and have nothing to defend ourselves from but novelties. To forbear doing is often as generous as to do; but 'tis less in the light, ...

— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne

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