conservancyn.

Brit.

/kənˈsəːvnsi/, U.S.

/kənˈsərvənsi/

Forms: late Middle English 1600s conservancie, 1600s– conservancy.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin conservantia ; conserve v., -ancy suffix.

Etymology: Either < post-classical Latin conservantia preservation, maintenance (from 13th cent. in British sources), office or authority of conservator (late 14th or early 15th cent. in British sources; < classical Latin cōnservant- , cōnservāns , present participle of cōnservāre conserve v. + -ia -y suffix³: see -ancy suffix), or < conserve v. + -ancy suffix. Compare earlier conservacy n.

1. The action of conserving or keeping something safe; conservation, protection. Now rare except as in sense 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [noun] > preservation in being or maintenance > specifically of existing conditions, institutions, etc.

conservationc1447

conservancya1500

retention1625

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > [noun]

maintenancec1390

sustentation1425

keepingc1430

conservationc1447

sustenation1496

maintainment?c1500

intertenure1537

containing1567

sustainment1568

maintain1599

manutention1603

manutenency?1630

continuance1691

conservancy1884

a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 48 (MED) The..conservacion of sanyte and of helthe [L. sanitatis] is better and precioser than any medecyne..egalnesse..of complexions..may not be had with-out attempraunce of humours and conservancie of sanite.

1682 W. Atwood Argumentum Anti-normannicum iv. p. xlv The conservancy of the Government being not safely to be lodged any where, but with the Government it self.

1758 Things as they Are 38 That monarch must look on the Court of Rome in its true light, of a Court of Conservancy of some of the most blasphemous and absurd fictions that ever dishonored the human understanding.

1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. x. ii. 613 The age of the Bo-tree is matter of record, its conservancy has been an object of solicitude to successive dynasties.

1884 Q. Rev. 141 A conservancy of hard won privileges.

1982 Times 14 July 3/2 Viewed from the positions of conservancy of the species and the salmon fishing sport.

2007 Business Wire (Nexis) 20 Dec. The Beijing Municipal Water Bureau..organizes and coordinates capital construction of farmland water conservancy.

a. Official charge and care of waterways or (later) forests. More widely: the preservation and management of such features of the natural environment. Cf. conservation n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [noun] > preservation from decay, loss, or destruction

conservationa1398

conserving1413

reservationa1555

conservancy1613

1613 W. Welwood Abridgem. Sea-lawes 44 Shares, lawfull prizes or goods of the enemy..which all are allowed in great Brittaine, France, and other noble kingdomes, to the Admirals, by their Soveraigne; for the better maintenance of their estate, iurisdiction, and conservancie on seas, rivers, flouds, roads, ports, harbours, channels, sayling, fishing, and all trading there.

1657 J. Howell Londinopolis 14 The extent thereof..and the waters of Medmay, all which extent is under the jurisdiction and conservancy of the Lord Mayor, the Comminalty, and Citizens of London.

1707 G. Miège New State Eng. (ed. 6) iii. xxii. 168 By a Statute made in the 17th Year of the Reign of Richard II. it is Ordained, that the Mayor of London shall have the Conservancy of the Thames.

1736 H. Bourne Hist. Newcastle upon Tyne xiii. 164 The Conservancy of the said River of Tyne is acknowledged to be in the said Mayor and Burgesses, between Sparrow-Hawk and Hedwin Streams.

1836 J. Bell New & Comprehensive Gazetteer Eng. & Wales III. 399/1 Within the limits of the county the conservancy of the river is vested in the magistrates of Worcestershire.

1884 Nature 26 June 195/6 India was the first to organise a complete system of forest conservancy.

1925 A. T. Toynbee Surv. Internat. Affairs 1920–23 67 The conservancy of this waterway had been placed..in the hands of a mixed Dutch-Belgian Commission.

1958 J. R. Andrus & A. F. Mohammed Econ. Pakistan v. 106 Rules for the conservancy of forests were framed in some districts after 1857.

1997 R. L. Bryant Polit. Ecol. Forestry Burma v. viii. 225 Given imperial interests, forest conservancy was linked to access restrictions.

b. Usually with capital initial. An official body having jurisdiction over a waterway or port, to regulate fisheries, navigation, etc.; in later use frequently in names, as the Thames Conservancy, the Mersey Conservancy. More widely: an official body charged with conservation of a particular area or in a particular field (see also nature conservancy n.). Cf. conservacy n.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > commission > other types of commission

conservacy1434

conservice1571

conservation1580

conservancy1618

Royal Commission1747

county commission1763

railroad commission1855

Audit Commission1866

European Commission1956

Countryside Commission1964

Truth and Reconciliation Commission1990

Truth Commission1991

1618 A. Munday Stow's Suruay of London (new ed.) 34 There had not been any Session of Conservancy in many yeeres past, kept by any L. Maior of London in that place.

1756 W. Maitland Hist. London (new ed.) I. i. 480/2 The Court of Conservancy of the River of Thames and the Waters of Medway hath many antient Privileges and Jurisdictions.

1772 Remonstrance in Ann. Reg. 1771 193 They have..superseded the conservancy of the river Thames.

1859 T. Baines Liverpool in 1859 i. 9 The Mersey Conservancy Board..consists of three commissioners of conservancy.

1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 19 Dec. 15/2 In full view of the conservancy men on the steamboat pier.

1911 Mariner′s Mirror 1 187/2 I remember reading some Thames Conservancy regulations..forbidding craft to move up and down the river with their anchors a-cock-bill.

1999 M. Shoard Right to Roam i. 46 The regional officer of the Forestry Commission for the Severn, Wye and Avon Conservancy.

2007 New Yorker 7 May 28/3 The Madison Square Park Conservancy commissioned Bill Fontana..to create a piece for the park's ongoing sculpture series.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	conservancy
释义	conservancyn. Brit. /kənˈsəːvnsi/, U.S. /kənˈsərvənsi/ Forms: late Middle English 1600s conservancie, 1600s– conservancy. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin conservantia ; conserve v., -ancy suffix. Etymology: Either < post-classical Latin conservantia preservation, maintenance (from 13th cent. in British sources), office or authority of conservator (late 14th or early 15th cent. in British sources; < classical Latin cōnservant- , cōnservāns , present participle of cōnservāre conserve v. + -ia -y suffix³: see -ancy suffix), or < conserve v. + -ancy suffix. Compare earlier conservacy n. 1. The action of conserving or keeping something safe; conservation, protection. Now rare except as in sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [noun] > preservation in being or maintenance > specifically of existing conditions, institutions, etc. conservationc1447 conservancya1500 retention1625 the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > [noun] maintenancec1390 sustentation1425 keepingc1430 conservationc1447 sustenation1496 maintainment?c1500 intertenure1537 containing1567 sustainment1568 maintain1599 manutention1603 manutenency?1630 continuance1691 conservancy1884 a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 48 (MED) The..conservacion of sanyte and of helthe [L. sanitatis] is better and precioser than any medecyne..egalnesse..of complexions..may not be had with-out attempraunce of humours and conservancie of sanite. 1682 W. Atwood Argumentum Anti-normannicum iv. p. xlv The conservancy of the Government being not safely to be lodged any where, but with the Government it self. 1758 Things as they Are 38 That monarch must look on the Court of Rome in its true light, of a Court of Conservancy of some of the most blasphemous and absurd fictions that ever dishonored the human understanding. 1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. x. ii. 613 The age of the Bo-tree is matter of record, its conservancy has been an object of solicitude to successive dynasties. 1884 Q. Rev. 141 A conservancy of hard won privileges. 1982 Times 14 July 3/2 Viewed from the positions of conservancy of the species and the salmon fishing sport. 2007 Business Wire (Nexis) 20 Dec. The Beijing Municipal Water Bureau..organizes and coordinates capital construction of farmland water conservancy. 2. a. Official charge and care of waterways or (later) forests. More widely: the preservation and management of such features of the natural environment. Cf. conservation n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [noun] > preservation from decay, loss, or destruction conservationa1398 conserving1413 reservationa1555 conservancy1613 1613 W. Welwood Abridgem. Sea-lawes 44 Shares, lawfull prizes or goods of the enemy..which all are allowed in great Brittaine, France, and other noble kingdomes, to the Admirals, by their Soveraigne; for the better maintenance of their estate, iurisdiction, and conservancie on seas, rivers, flouds, roads, ports, harbours, channels, sayling, fishing, and all trading there. 1657 J. Howell Londinopolis 14 The extent thereof..and the waters of Medmay, all which extent is under the jurisdiction and conservancy of the Lord Mayor, the Comminalty, and Citizens of London. 1707 G. Miège New State Eng. (ed. 6) iii. xxii. 168 By a Statute made in the 17th Year of the Reign of Richard II. it is Ordained, that the Mayor of London shall have the Conservancy of the Thames. 1736 H. Bourne Hist. Newcastle upon Tyne xiii. 164 The Conservancy of the said River of Tyne is acknowledged to be in the said Mayor and Burgesses, between Sparrow-Hawk and Hedwin Streams. 1836 J. Bell New & Comprehensive Gazetteer Eng. & Wales III. 399/1 Within the limits of the county the conservancy of the river is vested in the magistrates of Worcestershire. 1884 Nature 26 June 195/6 India was the first to organise a complete system of forest conservancy. 1925 A. T. Toynbee Surv. Internat. Affairs 1920–23 67 The conservancy of this waterway had been placed..in the hands of a mixed Dutch-Belgian Commission. 1958 J. R. Andrus & A. F. Mohammed Econ. Pakistan v. 106 Rules for the conservancy of forests were framed in some districts after 1857. 1997 R. L. Bryant Polit. Ecol. Forestry Burma v. viii. 225 Given imperial interests, forest conservancy was linked to access restrictions. b. Usually with capital initial. An official body having jurisdiction over a waterway or port, to regulate fisheries, navigation, etc.; in later use frequently in names, as the Thames Conservancy, the Mersey Conservancy. More widely: an official body charged with conservation of a particular area or in a particular field (see also nature conservancy n.). Cf. conservacy n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > commission > other types of commission conservacy1434 conservice1571 conservation1580 conservancy1618 Royal Commission1747 county commission1763 railroad commission1855 Audit Commission1866 European Commission1956 Countryside Commission1964 Truth and Reconciliation Commission1990 Truth Commission1991 1618 A. Munday Stow's Suruay of London (new ed.) 34 There had not been any Session of Conservancy in many yeeres past, kept by any L. Maior of London in that place. 1756 W. Maitland Hist. London (new ed.) I. i. 480/2 The Court of Conservancy of the River of Thames and the Waters of Medway hath many antient Privileges and Jurisdictions. 1772 Remonstrance in Ann. Reg. 1771 193 They have..superseded the conservancy of the river Thames. 1859 T. Baines Liverpool in 1859 i. 9 The Mersey Conservancy Board..consists of three commissioners of conservancy. 1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 19 Dec. 15/2 In full view of the conservancy men on the steamboat pier. 1911 Mariner′s Mirror 1 187/2 I remember reading some Thames Conservancy regulations..forbidding craft to move up and down the river with their anchors a-cock-bill. 1999 M. Shoard Right to Roam i. 46 The regional officer of the Forestry Commission for the Severn, Wye and Avon Conservancy. 2007 New Yorker 7 May 28/3 The Madison Square Park Conservancy commissioned Bill Fontana..to create a piece for the park's ongoing sculpture series. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1500
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