Conciliate

Definition: Conciliate

Conciliate

Verb

1. Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify her angry boss".

2. Come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up".

3. Make compatible with; "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "conciliate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Conciliate \Con*cil"i*ate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Conciliated; p. pr vb. noun Conciliating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Conciliate

Content

Render content; Adjective: set at ease, comfort; set one's heart at ease, set one's mind at ease, set one's heart at rest, set one's mind at rest; speak peace; conciliate, reconcile, win over, propitiate, disarm, beguile; content, satisfy; gratify.

Courtesy

Mind one's P's and Q's, behave oneself, be all things to all men, conciliate, speak one fair, take in good part; make the amiable, do the amiable; look as if butter would not melt in one's mouth; mend one's manners.

Forgiveness

Beg pardon, ask pardon, implore pardon; Noun: conciliate, propitiate, placate; make up a quarrel; (pacify); let the wound heal.

Motive

Tempt, seduce, overpersuade, entice, allure, captivate, fascinate, bewitch, carry away, charm, conciliate, wheedle, coax, lure; inveigle; tantalize; cajole; (deceive).

Pacification

Verb: pacify, tranquilize, compose; allay; (moderate); reconcile, propitiate, placate, conciliate, meet halfway, hold out the olive branch, heal the breach, make peace, restore harmony, bring to terms.

Crosswords: Conciliate

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

The center has jurisdiction to conciliate or arbitrate commercial disputes. (references)

Economic History

Sri Lanka

The Labor Department has the infrastructure for settling industrial disputes with labor, and compulsory arbitration is available when attempts to conciliate industrial disputes fail. (references)

Worker Rights

El Salvador

The Ministry often seeks to conciliate labor disputes through informal channels rather than attempt to enforce regulations strictly, which has led to charges that the Ministry is biased against labor. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

qetësoj (allay, appease, assuage, balsam, becalm, calm, calm down, comfort, cool down, ease, gentle, hush, lull, mollify, pacificate, pacify, palliate, placate, propitiate, quiet, quieten, reassure, relieve, salve, settle, soften, soothe, tranquilize, tranquillize), paqësoj (appease, pacificate, reconcile), bëj për vete (absorb, allure, capture, ingratiate, magnetize, prepossess). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وفق بين (accommodate, harmonize), ‏إستمال (induce, induce to speak, win), ‏إسترضى (appease, placate, propitiate, reconcile). (various references)

Bulgarian 

успокоявам (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, calm, calm down, comfort, compose, cool, ease, hush, lull, mitigate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quiet, quiet down, quieten, reassure, relieve, salve, settle, silence, sleek, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize, unbend), умилостивявам (propitiate), погаждам (bring to terms, play tricks, reconcile). (various references)

Chinese 

调解 (Conciliated, Conciliating, intercede, Interceded, Interceding). (various references)

Czech

získat (acquire, cajole, capture, carry off, come by, drum up, elicit, enlist, gain, get, make, notch up, obtain, pick up, piece up, procure, pull, raise, score, secure, take, win), smířit (pacify, reconcile, redeem). (various references)

Danish

forsone (to conciliate persons, to reconcile), forlige (to conciliate persons, to reconcile). (various references)

Dutch

bijeenbrengen (unite). (various references)

Farsi 

مطالعه کردن (Study), ساکت کردن (Appease, Calm, Quiet, Shush, Silence, Still, Whist), ارام کردن (Acquiesce, Allay, Alleviate, Appease, Assuage, Cool, Gentle, Lull, Pacify, Placate, Quiet, Silence, Smooth, Solace, Still), اشتی دادن (Accord, Agree, Reconcile). (various references)

Finnish

sovittaa (accommodate, adapt, adjust, arrange, atone for, build into, combine, expiate, fit in, incorporate into, make amends for, mediate, suit), sovitella (adapt, adjust, mediate), lepyttää (appease, propitiate). (various references)

French

concilier (to conciliate persons). (various references)

German

beschwichtigen (appease, assuage, calm down, hush, mollify, pacify, placate, soothe, to appease, to conciliate, to pacify). (various references)

Greek 

κατευνάζω (allay, appease, assuage, mollify, salve, tranquilize, tranquillize), συνδιαλλάττω, συμβιβάζω (accommodate, compound, compromise, give way, reconcile), συμφιλιώνω (cotton on, reconcile, reunite). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפיס (appease, make peace, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate, reconcile, soothe), ל�"פיס (appease). (various references)

Hungarian

kibékít (pacify, placate, reconcile, to accommodate, to conciliate, to pacify, to placate, to reconcile), összhangba hoz (coordinate with, harmonize, to conciliate, to coordinate, to co-ordinate, to reconcile, to square, to tune). (various references)

Indonesian

mendamaikan (bring together, propitiate). (various references)

Italian

conciliare (adjust, compound, conciliar, induce, reconcile), riconcigliarsi, accattivarsi (captivate, win). (various references)

Manx

jannoo coardail, jannoo caarjys (fraternisation, fraternise). (various references)

Norwegian

forsone (accord). (various references)

Pig Latin

onciliatecay

Portuguese

conciliar (arrange, attemper, harmonize, placate, reconcile), chamar (appeal to, attract, call, court, denominate, draw, drew, hail, invoke, summon, to call), cativar (bewitch, captivate, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enthral, enthrall, magnetize, win), pacificar (pacify, propitiate), harmonizar (accommodate, accord, adjust, agree, arrange, atone, attune, blend, chime, compose, compromise, harmonize, proportion, reconcile, salve, straighten out, suit). (various references)

Romanian

concilia (harmonize, reconcile, tally), câştiga (acquire, bear away, bear off, carry, carry off, clean, come by, conquer, convert, draw the winner, earn, find, gain, gain smb. over, make, obtain, overcome, purchase, score, steal, sweep, take the cake, win), atrage (allure, appeal, attract, bespeak, call, captivate, commend, court, decoy, draw, draw in, enamor, enamour, engage, entice, fetch, fix, interest, inveigle, lure, magnetize, win), împãca (adjust, agree, comfort, placate, propitiate, reconcile), îmbuna (calm, pacify, reconcile, subdue, tame). (various references)

Russian 

примирять (accommodate, compound, propitiate, reconcile). (various references)

Scottish

réitich (ratify, set in order). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zadobiti poverenje, miriti (pacify, reconcile). (various references)

Spanish

conciliar (get off, reconcile). (various references)

Swedish

försona (accommodate, atone for, make it up, placate, reconcile), blidka (appease, placate, propitiate, sweeten). (various references)

Turkish

yatıştırmak (abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, comfort, compose, defuse, disarm, ease, hush, lull, mitigate, moderate, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate, quell, quiet, quieten, remit, salve, sedate, settle, smooth down, smother up, soften, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), uzlaştırmak (accommodate, compromise, pacify, patch up, reconcile), gönlünü almak (appease, blandish, coax, mollify, placate, propitiate, soften), dostluğunu kazanmak (gain over, win, win over), barıştırmak (make peace, pacify, reconcile, reunite). (various references)

Ukrainian

умиротворяти (assuage, calm, pacificate, pacify), заспокоювати (appease, assuage, assure, becalm, calm, comfort, cool down, ease, lull, mollify, plaster, propitiate, quell, quiet, quieten, relieve, salve, satisfy, smooth, soften, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), завоювати довір'я, примиряти (accommodate, appease, placate), погоджувати (attune). (various references)

conplacet. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "conciliate": conciliated, conciliates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Conciliate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: concilate, Concilii, Concilio, concilitae, concilitate, concilliate, concitiate, consilia, consilio. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: niccolite.

-2 letters: acetonic, aconitic, canticle, cationic, colicine, enclitic, iconical, lactonic.

-3 letters: aclinic, aconite, actinic, aloetic, calcine, calcite, ciliate, cocaine, coeliac, coenact, colicin, colitic, conceal, conceit, conical, elation, laconic, lactone, lection, oceanic, toenail.

-4 letters: accent, acetic, acetin, acinic, action, aeonic, alnico, atelic, atonic, calico, cancel, cantic, cantle, cation, catlin, celiac, centai, cental, cicale, cilice, cineol.

+1 letter: conciliated, conciliates.

+2 letters: biotechnical, coincidental, conciliative, intervocalic.

+3 letters: anticlockwise, cliometrician, intercortical, neoclassicist, occidentalize, recirculation, volcanicities.

+4 letters: anticommercial, cliometricians, coincidentally, conceivability, neoclassicists, occidentalized, occidentalizes, recirculations, reconciliation, reconciliatory.

+5 letters: anticholinergic, communicatively, conceptualising, conceptualistic, conceptualities, conceptualizing, contractilities, counterclaiming, decalcification, electrification, interscholastic, noninsecticidal, occidentalizing, reconcilability, reconciliations.