v. rare. [f. as CONSERVATISM + -IZE.] a. trans. To render conservative. b. intr. To become conservative. Hence Conservatizing ppl. a.
1849. Clough, Lett. and Rem. (1865), 215. The natural conservatising character of our years after thirty.
1864. Church & St. Rev., V. 65. Now, to conservatize is to preserve our old institutions unimpaired.
1883. Contemp. Rev., June, 881. If there was anything specially Conservative and Conservatizing about it, why did he not realize it?