conservate
verbEtymology Back-formation from conservation.
1
Dated To conserve.
- The theory which was, and we believe is still maintained by the patentees, embraces the idea that the vitality of the animal is thus conservated and eventually conveyed to the plant per the Native Guano.1873, Van Nostrand's engineering magazine:
- When Hoover's conservating pen / Cut down our steak and sausage ration / With one accord we cried "AMEN," / And meatlessness became the fashion.1919, Frank Hunter Potter, The Naval Reserve:
2
Nonstandard To practice conservation.
- I'm sorry, but if it's fun in any way it's not environmentalism. […] Let's conservate.2001 March, Matt Groening, “Birdbot of Ice-Catraz”, in Futurama, season 3, episode 37: