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and lie mu ft (hew it. i Salk. 13. If a man keeps a bead 
of a lavage nature, as a lion, &c. it is at his peril to keep 
him up, and he is anf'werable for all the confequences of 
his getting loofe. Gilb. 187. The King v. Huggins. 
CONSEQUENTIALLY, adv. With juft deduction 
of confequences ; with right connexion of ideas.—No 
body writes a book without meaning fomething, though 
he may not have the faculty of writing confcquentialiy, and 
exprelTing his meaning. Addifon. —By confequence ; not 
immediately ; eventually.—This relation is fo necefiary, 
that God himfelf cannot difcharge a rational creature 
from it; although cnnfqucnlially indeed he may do fo, by 
the annihilation of fuch creatures. South. —In a regular 
feries.—Were a man a king in his dreams, and a beggar 
awake, and dreamt con/equential/y , and in continued un¬ 
broken fchemes, would he be in reality a king or a beg¬ 
gar ? Addifon. 
CONSEQUEN'TIALNESS, f. Regular confecution 
of difcourfe. 
CON'SEQUENTLY, adv. By confequence ; necefla- 
rily ; inevitably : by the connexion of efleets to their 
caufes.-—In the molt perfedl poem a perfedt idea was re¬ 
quired, and confcquently all poets ought rather to imitate 
it. Dryden. —In confequence; purfuantly.—There is con- 
fequently, upon this diftinguifiling principle, an inward 
fatisfadlion or dillatisfadlion in the heart of every man, 
after good or evil. South. 
CON'SEQUENTNESS, f. Regular connexion of pro- 
pofitions ; confecution of difcourfe.—Let them examine 
the confequentnefs of the whole body of the dodtrine I de¬ 
liver. Digby. 
CON'SERANS, or Couserans, before the revolu¬ 
tion, a country of France, in Gafcony, and the diocefe 
ofabifhop, whofe refidence was at St. Lifter, the capi¬ 
tal ; it was bounded on the eaft by Foix, on the fouth 
by Catalonia, and on the north and weft by Comminges. 
CONSERVABLE, adj. [from confervo, Lat. to keep.] 
Capable of being kept, or maintained. 
CONSERVANCY, f. [from confervans, Lat.] Courts 
held by the lord mayor of London, for the prefervation 
of the ftfhery on the river Thames, are called Courts of 
Confervancy. 
CONSERVA'TION, f. \_confervatio, Lat.] The adl of 
preferving ; care to keep from peddling ; continuance ; 
protedlion.—Though there do indeed happen forne alte¬ 
rations in the globe, yet they are fuch as tend rather to 
the benefit and confervation of the earth, find its produc¬ 
tions, than to the diforder and deftrudtion of both. M^ood- 
zvard. —Prefervation from corruption.—It is an enquiry 
of excellent ufe, to enquire of the means of preventing 
or flaying of putrefaction, for therein confifleth the means 
of confervation of bodies. Bacon. 
CONSERVATIVE, adj. [from confervo, Lat.] Hav¬ 
ing the power of oppofing diminution or injury.—The 
fpherical figure, as to all heavenly bodies, fo it agreeth 
to light, as the mod perfect and confervativc of all others. 
Pcacham. 
CONSERVA'TOR, f. [Lat.] Preferver; one that 
has the care or office of keeping any thing from detri¬ 
ment, diminution, or extinction. Bacon .—The lords of 
.the fecret council were likewife made confervators of the 
peace of the two kingdoms, during the intervals of par¬ 
liament. Clarendon. 
Confervators of.the Peace were appointed in England be¬ 
fore the reign of Edward III. who firft created juftices 
of the peace. The confervators were perfons that by 
the common law had intereft in keeping the peace. Some 
had that charge by tenure, as holding lands of the king 
by this fervice, &c. others as incident to the offices which 
they bore, and included in the fame; and Tome had it 
fimply of itfelf, and were therefore named cujlodes pads, 
wardens or confervators of the peace. The chamberlain 
of Chefter is a confervator of the peace in that county, 
by virtue of his office. Sheriffs of counties at common 
law are confervators of the peace ; and conftables, by 
1 
the common law were confervators, but fomc fay they 
were only fubordinate to the confervators of the peace, 
as they are now to the juftices. The king is, by his of¬ 
fice and dignity, the principal confervator of the peace 
within all his dominions ; and may give authority to any 
other to fee the peace kept, and to puniflt fuch as break 
it; hence it is ufually called the king’s peace. The lord 
chancellor or keeper, the lord treafurer, the lord high 
fteward of England, the lord marefchal, and lord high 
conftable of England, (when any fuch officers are in 
being,) and all the juftices of the court of king’s bench., 
(by virtue of their offices,) and the mafter of the rolls, 
(by prefcription,) are general confervators of the peace 
throughout the whole kingdom, and may commit all 
breakers of it, or bind them it) recognizances to keep it ; 
the other judges are only fo in their own courts. The 
coroner is alfo a confervator of the peace within his own 
county ; as is alfo the fheriff, and both of them may take 
a recognizance or fecurity for the peace. Conftables, 
tything-men, &c. are alfo confervators of the peace within 
their own jurifdi&ions ; and may apprehend all breakers 
of the peace, and commit them till they find fureties for 
their keeping it. 1 Comm. 350. 
Confervator of the Truce, was an officer appointed by the 
king’s letters patent, whofe charge was to inquire of all 
offences done againft the king’s truce and fafc-conduCts 
upon the main fea, out of the liberties of the cinque- 
ports, as declared in z Hen. V. c. 6. Two men learned 
in the law were joined to confervators of the truce as 
affociates ; and mailers of fhips fworn not to attempt any¬ 
thing againft the truce, &c. And letters of requeft and 
of marque w-ere to be granted when truce was broken at 
fea to make-refutation. 4Hen. V. c. 7. There was an¬ 
ciently a confervator of the privileges of the hofpitallers 
and templars. The corporation of the great level of the 
fens conlifts of a governor, fix bailiffs, twenty conferva¬ 
tors, apd commonalty. 15 Car. II. 
CONSERVATORY, f. [from confervo, Lat.] Agreen- 
houfe. A place where any thing is kept in a manner pro¬ 
per to its peculiar nature ; as, fiflt in a pond, corn in a 
granary.—You may fet your tender trees and plants, with 
the windows and doors of the green-houfes and conferva- 
tories open, for eight or ten days before April. Evelyn. —■ 
The water difpenfed to the earth and atmofphere by the 
great abyfs, that fubterraneanco^rua/ery, is by that means 
reftored back. Woodward. 
CONSERVATORY, adj. Having a prefervative 
quality. 
To CONSERVE, v. a. \_confervo, Lat.] To preferve 
without lofs or detriment.—Nothing was loft out of thefe 
ftores, fince the art of conferving what others have gained 
in knowledge is eafy. Temple .—To candy or pickle fruit. 
CONSERVE, f. A fweetmeat made of the infpiffated 
juices of fruit, boiled with fugar till they will harden 
and candy. See Pharmacy. —Will’t pleafe your ho¬ 
nour, tafte of thefe confervcs? Shakcfpeare. —The more coft 
they were at, and the more fweets they beftowed upon 
them, the more their conferves flunk. Dennis. —A confer- 
vatory or place in which any thing is kept. This fenfe 
is unufual.—Tuberofes will not endure the wet of this 
feafon ; therefore fet the pots into your conferve, and keep 
them dry. Evelyn. 
CONSER'VER,yi A layer up; a repofiter; one that 
preferves any thing from lofs or diminution.—In the 
eaftern regions there feems to have been a general cuflom 
of the priefts having been the perpetual ccnfervers of 
knowledge and ftory. Temple. —A preparer of conferves. 
CONSES'SION, f. [confcjfio, Lat.] A fitting together, 
CONSES'SOR,yi [Lat.] One that fits with others. 
CON'SET’s BAY, a bay on the north-eafl coaft of 
the ifland of Barbadoes, north of Confet’s Point : ten 
miles north-eafl of Bridgetown. 
CON'SET’s POINT, a cape on the north-eafl coaft of 
the ifland of Barbadoes. 
To CONSI'DER, v. a. [ confdero , Lat.} To think 
upon 
