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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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"Reconcile" Quotes from Famous Books

... but the loyal fear that Nature is being violated? Men must oppose with every energy they possess what seems to them to oppose the eternal course of things. And the first step in their deliverance must be not to "reconcile" Nature and Religion, but to exhibit Nature in Religion. Even to convince them that there is no controversy between Religion and Science is insufficient. A mere flag of truce, in the nature of the case, is here impossible; at least, it is only possible so long as neither party ...

— Natural Law in the Spiritual World • Henry Drummond

... mysterious end of the legendary Dietrich {11}. Later on, the legendary and the real hero were so firmly welded together that, as early as the twelfth century, chroniclers are at their wits' end how to reconcile facts ...

— The Roman and the Teuton - A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge • Charles Kingsley

... ago,—and I had seen him only a few hours back. John Dwerrihouse had embezzled seventy-five thousand pounds of the company's money, yet told me that he carried that sum upon his person. Were ever facts so strangely incongruous, so difficult to reconcile? How should he have ventured again into the light of day? How dared he show himself along the line? Above all, what had he been doing throughout those mysterious three ...

— Little Classics, Volume 8 (of 18) - Mystery • Various

... Curtius, following perhaps some one of Alexander's historians, gave for the height 150 feet; finally Clitarchus, as reported by Diodorus Siculus, and Strabo, who probably followed him, have left us the very moderate estimate of 75 feet. It is impossible to reconcile these numbers. The supposition that some of them belong properly to the outer, and others to the inner wall, will not explain the discrepancies—for the measurements cannot by any ingenuity be reduced to two sets of dimensions. ...

— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon • George Rawlinson

... self of fifty years ago, not scornfully, but with gentle irony - sympathetically. I pat the boy on the shoulder and admonish him kindly: "Quiet, laddie, be not so dismayed. We are a strange mingling of ape and angel. But try, as quickly as possible, to reconcile yourself to this, then everything becomes quite bearable. Do you think this same thing would have caused like consternation to Emmy Tenders, if the knowledge but came to her in the right way, that is to say the way ...

— The Bride of Dreams • Frederik van Eeden

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