reconcile

[RecĀ·on*cile`]

Reach for the verb reconcile to make different things come together or resolve a matter.

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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.

Verb
bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one''s goals with one''s abilities"

Verb
make compatible with; "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories"

Verb
accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate"

Verb
come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up"


v. t.
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.

v. t.
To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.

v. t.
To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; -- followed by with or to.

v. t.
To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.

v. i.
To become reconciled.


Reconcile

Rec"on*cile` (-s?l`), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reconciled (-s?ld`); p. pr. & vb. n. Reconciling.] [F. r'82concilier, 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.
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. Syn. -- To reunite; conciliate; placate; propitiate; pacify; appease.

Reconcile

Rec"on*cile`, v. i. To become reconciled. [Obs.]

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.

To become reconciled.

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Usage Examples

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.

The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.

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Other Usage Examples

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth, for all Australians - those who are indigenous and those who are not - to come together to reconcile and together build a new future for our nation.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

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