CONSERVATOR. An officer who has the charge of preserving the rights and privileges of a city, corporation, or community, as in Roman Catholic universities.--_Webster_.
CONSILIUM ABEUNDI. Latin; freely, _the decree of departure_. In German universities, the _consilium abeundi_ "consists in expulsion out of the district of the court of justice within which the university is situated. This punishment lasts a year; after the expiration of which, the banished student can renew his matriculation."--_Howitt's Student Life of Germany_, Am. ed., p. 33.
CONSISTORY COURT. In the University of Cambridge, England, there is a _consistory court_ of the Chancellor and of the Commissary. "For the former," says the Gradus ad Cantabrigiam, "the Chancellor, and in his absence the Vice-Chancellor, assisted by some of the heads of houses, and one or more doctors of the civil law, administers justice desired by any member of the University, &c. In the latter, the Commissary acts by authority given him under the seal of the Chancellor, as well in the University as at Stourbridge and Midsummer fairs, and takes cognizance of all offences, &c. The proceedings are the same in both courts."
CONSTITUTIONAL. Among students at the University of Cambridge, Eng., a walk for exercise.
The gallop over Bullington, and the "_constitutional_" up Headington.--_Lond. Quart. Rev._, Am. ed., Vol. LXXIII. p. 53.
Instead of boots he [the Cantab] wears easy low-heeled shoes, for greater convenience in fence and ditch jumping, and other feats of extempore gymnastics which diversify his "_constitutionals_".--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 4.
Even the mild walks which are dignified with the name of exercise there, how unlike the Cantab's _constitutional_ of eight miles in less than two hours.--_Ibid._, p. 45.
Lucky is the man who lives a mile off from his private tutor, or has rooms ten minutes' walk from chapel: he is sure of that much _constitutional_ daily.--_Ibid._, p. 224.
"_Constitutionals_" of eight miles in less than two hours, varied with jumping hedges, ditches, and gates; "pulling" on the river, cricket, football, riding twelve miles without drawing bridle,... are what he understands by his two hours' exercise.--_Ibid._, p. 328.