reconcile

reconcile
reconcilement, n.reconciler, n.reconcilingly, adv.
/rek"euhn suyl'/, v., reconciled, reconciling.
v.t.
1. to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.
2. to win over to friendliness; cause to become amicable: to reconcile hostile persons.
3. to compose or settle (a quarrel, dispute, etc.).
4. to bring into agreement or harmony; make compatible or consistent: to reconcile differing statements; to reconcile accounts.
5. to reconsecrate (a desecrated church, cemetery, etc.).
6. to restore (an excommunicate or penitent) to communion in a church.
v.i.
7. to become reconciled.
[1300-50; ME reconcilen < L reconciliare to make good again, repair. See RE-, CONCILIATE]
Syn. 2. pacify, propitiate, placate. 4. harmonize.
Ant. 3. anger.

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