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/rˈɛkənsˌaɪl/ Listen

verb

Reconcile v. t. (past & past part. reconciled; pres. part. reconciling)

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." "The church (if defiled) is interdicted till it be reconciled (i.e., restored to sanctity) by the bishop." "We pray you... be ye reconciled to God."

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." "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."

4.

To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.

Synonyms: To reunite; conciliate; placate; propitiate; pacify; appease.

Reconcile v. i. To become reconciled. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Reconcile'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— Problems of Conduct • Durant Drake

... conceive that Great Britain and the Boers are alike satisfied of the substantial justice of their respective claims. It is permissible most earnestly to hope that, in disputes between sovereign states, arbitration may find a way to reconcile peace with fidelity to conscience, in the case of both; but if the conviction of conscience remains unshaken, war is better than disobedience,—better than acquiescence in recognized wrong. The great danger of undiscriminating advocacy of arbitration, which threatens ...

— Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles • Alfred T. Mahan

... religious exercises, and with the clergy leading, marched around the city. From the valley which faces Calvary, the Crusaders set out, passing by the reputed tomb of Mary, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the Mount of Olives. They halted on the Mount of the Ascension to reconcile all differences and seal pardon with mutual prayer. The Saracens raised crosses on the walls, and denied them in every way which could be devised by a foul imagination. After a long silence, Peter the Hermit once more finds voice: "You hear them! You hear their ...

— Peter the Hermit - A Tale of Enthusiasm • Daniel A. Goodsell

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— My Recollections of Lord Byron • Teresa Guiccioli

... made them parts of my own soul. Nay, they were and ever will be parts of me; for they, even as the poet was, even as I am, are but a part of the universal soul. What matter, then, what myths grew up around those mighty thoughts of ancient seers? Let others try to reconcile the Cyclic fragments, or vindicate the Catalogue of ships. What has the philosopher lost, though the former were proved to be contradictory, and the latter interpolated? The thoughts are there, and ours, Let us open our hearts lovingly to receive them, from whencesoever ...

— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley

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