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conciliate en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /ˌkənˈsɪlieɪt/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conciliātus, perfect passive participle of conciliō (“to unite”), from concilium (“council, meeting”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete, transitive) To acquire, to procure.
   • Frankneſs and openneſs conciliate confidence. We truſt the man who ſeems willing to truſt us. 1790, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments; […] In Two Volumes, 6th edition, volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell […]; Edinburgh: W[illiam] Creech, and J. Bell & Co., →OCLC, part VII, section IV (Of the Manner in which Different Authors have Treated of the Practical Rules of Morality), page 387:
2. (archaic, transitive) To reconcile (discordant theories, demands etc.); to make compatible, bring together.
   • It must surely then happen, to a much greater degree, in a great nation, whose government is suddenly dissolved by the resolution of the people; and which, in taking a new form, has so many jarring interests to conciliate […]. 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 324:
3. (transitive) To make calm and content, or regain the goodwill of; to placate; to propitiate.
   • `Surely, my father,' I answered courteously, feeling certain that I should do well to conciliate this ancient Mammon of Unrighteousness. 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
4. (intransitive) To mediate in a dispute.

Forms

Deriveds

conciliator · conciliative · unconciliating · unconciliated · nonconciliating · conciliatingly · conciliatory

Relateds

council · conciliation · reconciliate · reconcile

Translations (22)

ro îmbuna (make calm and content) · mi whakaepaepa (make calm and content) · sv lugna (make calm and content) · es conciliar (make calm and content) · de beschwichtigen (make calm and content) · gl conciliar (make calm and content) · bg успокоявам (make calm and content) · grc ἱλάσκομαι (make calm and content) · mi tāpore (make calm and content) · pl ułagodzić (make calm and content) · no forsone (make calm and content) · bg умиротворявам (make calm and content) · el συμφιλιώνω (make calm and content) · el συνδιαλλάττω (make calm and content) · es apaciguar (make calm and content) · mi whakahere (make calm and content) · ro concilia (make calm and content) · pl udobruchać (make calm and content) · pl ułagadzać (make calm and content) · rup mbunedzu (make calm and content) · eo akordigi (make calm and content) · el συμβιβάζω (make calm and content)