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▪ I. conservatory, n.|kənˈsɜːvətərɪ|
[Answers to a L. type *conservātōri-um, neut. n. from conservātōrius adj. (in med.L.), and to mod.F. conservatoire: see -ory.]
†1. That which preserves, a preservative. Obs.
1563Homilies ii. Sacrament i. (1859) 443 The ancient catholic fathers..were not afraid to call this [the Lord's] Supper..the food of immortality..and the conservatory to everlasting life. 1655Jer. Taylor Repentance vi. §1 (R.) A tree appointed to be the cure of diseases and a conservatory of life. 1660― Duct. Dubit. ii. iii. Rule vii. §1 Non concupisces is the apex juris: it is the conservatory and the last duty of every commandment.
†2. A place where things are preserved or kept securely; a storehouse, a repository. Also fig.
1642Declar. Lords & Comm. 26 May 11 The fountaine and Conservatory of the law. 1656Stanley Hist. Philos. I. v. 12 Memory is a conservatory or repository of the senses. 1673Lady's Call. i. §5. 43 That know no other use of closets then as a conservatory of gauds and baubles. 1726R. Neve Builder's Dict. s.v. Building, A Place..for a Conservatory of the Meats that are taken from Tables. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 50 The great conservatories and magazines of our rights and privileges. 1796C. Marshall Garden. xx. (ed. 5) 441 A conservatory for Fish.
†3. A place for preserving snow or ice unmelted; an ice-house. Obs.
1626Bacon Sylva §70 A Conservatory of Snow and Ice; such as they use for delicacy, to cool Wine in Summer. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. i. 50 Any Minerall solution..placed in cold conservatories, will Crystallise. 1693Sir T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 167 In a Deep Well, or in a Conservatory of Snow..the Cold may be more Constringent. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. 140 By its exceeding height, it [Libanus] proves a conservatory for abundance of Snow.
†4. A reservoir of water. Obs.
1673Ray Journ. Low C. 68 The Water running down..into the Bottom of the Basins or Conservatories. 1675Phil. Trans. X. 448 If a conservatory should hold 3378 muids of water. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 26 Heads of Water, which are Conservatories for the Fountains. Ibid. 28 A Reservoir or Conservatory.
5. A greenhouse for tender flowers or plants; now, usually, an ornamental house into which plants in bloom are brought from the hot-house or green-house.
1664Evelyn Sylva (1776) 413 Setting it in cases in our Conservatories of Hyemation. 1664― Kal. Hort. (1729) 198 With the Windows and Doors of the Green-houses and Conservatories open. 1691Lond. Gaz. No. 2674/4 A new Conservatory, or Green-House. 1782Europ. Mag. II. 87 The idea of a Conservatory opening by a folding door into his saloon, is too fine to be left unfinished. 1824Scott Redgauntlet let. vii, The present proprietor had rendered it [the parlour] more cheerful by opening one end into a small conservatory..I have never before seen this. 1859W. Collins Q. of Hearts (1875) 24, I..found her in the conservatory, fumigating the plants.
†6. A hospital for the protection and nurture of orphans and foundlings. Obs.
1616Brent tr. Sarpi's Counc. Trent (1676) 332 The Conservatories of these, should, by no means, be touched. 1650J. Howell Giraffi's Rev. Naples 100 An intention he had to make it [a palace] A Conservatory for poor Maidens. 1693Phil. Trans. XVII. 837 The Monasteries..with a Conservatory of Orphans, are all shook down.
7. As a rendering of It. conservatorio, F. conservatoire, Ger. conservatorium: A public institution for special instruction in music and declamation; a school or academy of music. Frequent in U.S.; in England, the French form of the word is commonly used: see conservatoire.
The Italian conservatorios were the earliest, and originated in hospitals for the rearing of foundlings and orphans (see prec. sense), in which a musical education was given.
1842Hook Ch. Dict., Conservatorii [ed. 1846 Conservatories], public schools of music in Italy. 1879Howells L. Aroostook (1883) I. 157 You are going to study at the conservatory in Milan? 1880Grove Dict. Mus. I. 10 The chief public institution in New York for teaching music is the New York Conservatory of Music.
▪ II. conservatory, a.|kənˈsɜːvətərɪ|
[Answers to med.L. conservātōri-us (bulla, epistola conservatoria), f. L. conservātor: see above and -ory.]
1. Adapted to conserve; preservative.
1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 73 Galen calleth them causes conservatory. 1660Howell Parly of Beasts 143 (D.) Souvrain and conservatory influence. 1824Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 I. 37 Compliance..with such conservatory statutes. 1833Lamb Elia Ser. ii. xviii. 361 The Vessel that was to be conservatory of the wrecks of the species of drowned mankind.
2. = conservative.
1822Ann. Reg. ii. 795 For the advantage of conservatory and truly liberal ideas. 1829Hist. Europe, ibid. 140/2 A conservatory principle always maintained by France.
3. [= F. conservatoire.] In French law applied to an act of procedure having as its object to prevent prejudice to a right and to a body having this function.
1801Ann. Reg. 56 A conservatory jury..which was to name, from popular lists, the legislative bodies. 1810Ibid., Chron. 6 By another decree of the conservatory senate..the towns of Kehl, Wesel, Cassel, and Flushing, are to be united to the French empire.
4. Of or pertaining to the conservators of a river.
1881Daily News 13 Sept. 6/5 The conservatory steam launch came upon a number of fishermen..with illegal nets. |