Executor vs Conservator - What's the difference?
executor | conservator |
A person who carries out some task.
(label) Someone appointed by a testator to administer a will; an administrator.
(obsolete) An executioner.
* 1599 , , I. ii. 203:
One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
* Derham
(legal) A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.
* Clarendon
* Bouvier
An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, such as a justice or sheriff.
(Roman Catholicism) A judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process.
A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.
As nouns the difference between executor and conservator
is that executor is a person who carries out some task while conservator is one who conserves, preserves or protects something.executor
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Alternative forms
* executour (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia executor) (en noun)- The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, / Delivering o'er to executors pale / The lazy yawning drone.
conservator
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Alternative forms
* conservatour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Chlouveraki, a tenacious archaeological conservator , has salvaged antiquities all over the Middle East.
- the great Creator and Conservator of the world
- The lords of the secret council were likewise made conservators of the peace of the two kingdoms.
- the conservator of the estate of an idiot
