 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
reconcile
verb
1: make compatible with; "The scientists had to accommodate the
new results with the existing theories" [syn: {accommodate},
{conciliate}]
2: bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one's goals with
one's abilities" [syn: {harmonize}, {harmonise}]
3: come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up"
[syn: {patch up}, {make up}, {conciliate}, {settle}]
4: accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate"
[syn: {resign}, {submit}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reconcile \Rec"on*cile'\ (-s?l'), verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reconcile \Rec"on*cile'\, verb (used without an object)
To become reconciled. [Obs.]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "reconcile":
accept, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, adapt, adapt to,
adjust, adjust to, agree with, arrange matters, assimilate,
assimilate to, attune, be guided by, bend, bring to terms,
bring together, bury the hatchet, chime in with, comply,
comply with, compose, compromise, condone, conform, coordinate,
correct, correspond, countenance, cut to, discipline, equalize,
fall in with, fit, fix, fix up, follow, gear to, go by,
grin and abide, harmonize, heal the breach, homologate, homologize,
integrate, key to, let go by, let pass, make conform, make peace,
make plumb, make uniform, measure, mediate, meet, mold, obey,
observe, overlook, patch things up, placate, proportion,
put in tune, quadrate, rectify, regulate, resign, resolve,
restore harmony, reunite, right, rise above, rub off corners, set,
set right, settle, settle differences, shape, shrug, shrug it off,
similarize, smooth it over, square, straighten, submit, submit to,
suit, sync, synchronize, tailor, tally with, trim to, true,
true up, tune, unite, weave peace between, yield, yield to
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