Reconcile
['rek(ə)nsaɪl] or ['rɛkənsaɪl]
Definition
(verb.) come to terms; 'After some discussion we finally made up'.
Editor: Martin--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.
(v. t.) To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; -- followed by with or to.
(v. t.) To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.
(v. i.) To become reconciled.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Conciliate, pacify, propitiate, restore to friendship.[2]. Content, bring to acquiescence, make contented.[3]. Harmonize, make consistent, bring into harmony.[4]. Settle, adjust, compose, heal, make up.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Unite, conciliate, propitiate, pacify, harmonize, adjust, adapt, suit, reunite
ANT:Separate, sever, dissever, estrange, disharmonize, derange, alienate
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Definition
v.t. to restore to friendship or union: to bring to agreement: to bring to contentment: to pacify: to make consistent: to adjust or compose.—adj. Rec′oncilable that may be reconciled: that may be made to agree: consistent.—n. Rec′oncilableness possibility of being reconciled: consistency: harmony.—adv. Rec′oncilably in a reconcilable manner.—ns. Rec′onciler; Reconciliā′tion Rec′oncilement act of reconciling: state of being reconciled: renewal of friendship: propitiation: atonement: the bringing to agreement things at variance.—adj. Reconcil′iatory serving or tending to reconcile.
Editor: Pierre
Examples
- Miss Steele was the least discomposed of the three, by their presence; and it was in their power to reconcile her to it entirely. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- In some degree also he was fitted to reconcile all parties. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Not even the sense of danger was sufficient to reconcile, for ever so short a time, their jarring interests. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- You, and such as you, show me the sunny side of human life, and reconcile me with the world that I am leaving, before I go. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I am marrying in despair, Mr. Bruff--on the chance of dropping into some sort of stagnant happiness which may reconcile me to my life. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Dalton tried in vain to reconcile this supposi tion with his belief in the atomic nature of matter. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It may well be asked how it is possible to reconcile this case with the theory of natural selection? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- You don't know what she endured, sir, said honest Dobbin with a tremor in his voice, and I hope and trust you will be reconciled to her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Hassan, in another dress, is in an attitude by Zuleikah, who is perfectly reconciled to him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I should be much happier if we were reconciled. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Philosophers begin to be reconciled to the principle, that we have no idea of external substance, distinct from the ideas of particular qualities. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He had made attempts by letter, more than once already, to be reconciled with my lady, for no other purpose, I am firmly persuaded, than to annoy her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- His aunt had shown her inclination; perhaps his grandfather himself, they hinted, might be disposed to be reconciled to him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Thy language, answered Rowena, hath in its indifferent bluntness something which cannot be reconciled with the horrors it seems to express. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It was not the long, bleak sunny days of spring, nor yet was it that time was reconciling her to the town of her habitation. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- His heart is set on our marriage--there will be great difficulty, I fear, in reconciling him to the breaking-off of the engagement. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Would I forgive him for the selfish idea, and prove my pardon by a reconciling kiss? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He is very fond of Natural History and various scientific matters, and he is hampered in reconciling these tastes with his position. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The arrangement I have proposed reconciles the interests on both sides, if she will only consent to it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But habit reconciles everything. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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