About The Word Reconcile
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Reconcile
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What's The Definition Of Reconcile?
[v] bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one's goals with one's abilities"
[v] make compatible with; "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories" [v] accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate" [v] come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up" Synonyms | Synonyms for Reconcile: accommodate | conciliate | conciliate | harmonise | harmonize | make up | patch up | resign | settle | submit Related Terms | Find terms related to Reconcile: See Also | accept | adjust | agree | appease | concord | concur | hold | key | make peace | propitiate | set Reconcile In Webster's Dictionary \Rec"on*cile`\ (-s?l`), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Reconciled} (-s?ld`); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reconciling}.] [F.
r['e]concilier, L. reconciliare; pref. re- re- + conciliare
to bring together, to unite. See {Conciliate}.]
1. To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to
restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause
to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who
have quarreled.
Propitious now and reconciled by prayer. --Dryden.
The church [if defiled] is interdicted till it be
reconciled [i.e., restored to sanctity] by the
bishop. --Chaucer.
We pray you . . . be ye reconciled to God. --2 Cor.
v. 20.
2. To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission;
as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.
3. To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or
suitableness; -- followed by with or to.
The great men among the ancients understood how to
reconcile manual labor with affairs of state.
--Locke.
Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear,
Considered singly, or beheld too near; Which, but
proportioned to their light or place, Due distance
reconciles to form and grace. --Pope.
4. To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.
Syn: To reunite; conciliate; placate; propitiate; pacify;
appease.
\Rec"on*cile`\, v. i. To become reconciled. [Obs.] |
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