verb
Meaning 1
To acquire, to procure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
conciliate
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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/ˌkənˈsɪlieɪt/
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verb
Meaning 2
To reconcile (discordant theories, demands etc.); to make compatible, bring together.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To make calm and content, or regain the goodwill of; to placate; to propitiate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
Meaning 4
To mediate in a dispute.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 5
make (one thing) compatible with (another)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: accommodate, reconcile
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: harmonize, harmonise
verb
Meaning 6
come to terms
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- After some discussion we finally made up
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: reconcile, patch up, make up, settle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: agree, hold, concur, concord
Narrower terms: propitiate, appease, make peace
verb
Meaning 7
cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She managed to mollify the angry customer
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pacify, lenify, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin conciliātus, perfect passive participle of conciliō (“to unite”), from concilium (“council, meeting”).
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Aromanian: mbunedzu — make calm and content
- Bulgarian: успокоявам (uspokojavam) — make calm and content
- Bulgarian: умиротворявам (umirotvorjavam) — make calm and content
- Esperanto: akordigi — make calm and content
- Galician: conciliar — make calm and content
- German: beschwichtigen — make calm and content
- Greek: συμφιλιώνω (symfilióno) — make calm and content
- Greek: συμβιβάζω (symvivázo) — make calm and content
- Greek: συνδιαλλάττω (syndiallátto) — make calm and content
- Ancient Greek: ἱλάσκομαι (hiláskomai) — make calm and content
- Māori: whakaepaepa — make calm and content
- Māori: tāpore — make calm and content
- Māori: whakahere — make calm and content
- Norwegian: forsone — make calm and content
- Romanian: concilia — make calm and content
- Romanian: îmbuna — make calm and content
- Spanish: apaciguar — make calm and content
- Spanish: conciliar — make calm and content
- Swedish: lugna — make calm and content