conciliate
verbEtymology
Borrowed from Latin conciliātus, perfect passive participle of conciliō (“to unite”), from concilium (“council, meeting”).
- borrowed from conciliātus
Definitions
To acquire, to procure.
- Frankneſs and openneſs conciliate confidence. We truſt the man who ſeems willing to truſt us.
To reconcile (discordant theories, demands etc.)
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 […].
To make calm and content, or regain the goodwill of
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.
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To mediate in a dispute.
The neighborhood
- neighborconciliation
- neighborcouncil
- neighborreconcile
- neighborreconciliate
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at conciliate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at conciliate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at conciliate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA