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reconcile

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Word definitions for reconcile in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN attempt ▪ Human elements balance geometry in an attempt to reconcile ancient human values with present day notions of modernity. ▪ In my opinion, any attempt to reconcile the statements of principle in Lawrence and Morris ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. make compatible with; "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories" [syn: accommodate , conciliate ] bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one's goals with one's abilities" [syn: harmonize , harmonise ] come to ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., of persons, from Old French reconcilier (12c.) and directly from Latin reconcilare "to bring together again; regain; win over again, conciliate," from re- "again" (see re- ) + concilare "make friendly" (see conciliate ). Reflexive sense is recorded ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony. 2 To make things compatible or consistent. 3 To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

Usage examples of reconcile.

He accounted his enemies those who envied him, and those who could not be reconciled to his glory and the influence of his name.

Platonists, and at the same time reconciled itself to the popular religion by means of allegorism, that is, it formed a new theology.

Marquis de Montespan, not to annul and revoke the judicial and legal separation which exists, but to inform him of your return to reasonable ideas, and of your resolve to be reconciled with the public.

As there was a necessity for reconciling this stubborn fact with the theory, his followers have made up the deficiency by resorting to the tangential force, or, as Clairant proposed, by continuing the approximations to terms of a higher order, or to the square of the disturbing force.

Menippea, where everything is permitted and nothing decided, dissolves the metaphysics of Dostoyevsky, whose creative thought is a struggle to reconcile four antinomic freedoms, two of which oppose the other two.

A killer behind bars, the Alvarez thing over, his past reconciled, a bankable profit for all, and Rosemary.

At the period of our history, the solicitors frequently sought the judge with the request that he would appoint an agent whom they proposed to him, --a man, as they said, to whom the affairs of the bankrupt were well-known, who would know how to reconcile the interests of the whole body of creditors with those of a man honorably overtaken by misfortune.

Jonas found it hard to reconcile the easy-going Cadmus with the Light Bringer warrior before him.

If you can answer that question in the affirmative, then do so explicitly, by demonstrating how their opinions in this case can be reconciled with their opinions in prior cases as well as with their extrajudicial writings.

Roridula, perhaps, shows us how we may reconcile these difficulties with respect to the homological nature of the tentacles.

Looking round, Macro observed the same forwardness in the other Celtic women and was trying to reconcile himself to the strange ways of this new culture when Boudica planted a boozy kiss on his lips.

During two days the king rejected his application: but sensible, either that this affair might be attended with dangerous consequences, or that in his impatience he had groundlessly accused the primate of malversation in his office, which seems really to have been the case, he at last permitted him to take his seat, and was reconciled to him.

The two mares quarreled, cajoled, discussed and reconciled, each seeking to convince the other to join her.

The delight of finding themselves once more together there, Denis, Ambroise, Gervais, Gregoire, the four big brothers, and Claire, the big sister, all reconciled and again invincible, increased when Charlotte arrived, bringing with her the other three daughters, Louise, Madeleine, and Marthe, who had married and settled in the district.

There was an openness about his manner, about even his features, which Merlin could not reconcile with the Old Heritage at all.