[ UK /kənsˈɪlɪˌe‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
    She managed to mollify the angry customer
  2. make (one thing) compatible with (another)
    The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories
  3. come to terms
    After some discussion we finally made up
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How To Use conciliate In A Sentence

  • In another important aspect of the decision, the full bench said that Commissioner John Elder erred when he decided that the matter was beyond jurisdiction before attempting to conciliate it.
  • When she tracks him down at his office, she expects to be conciliated, to be appeased, but especially to be married.
  • He has deliberately said, that, if we cannot "conciliate" the Rebels, and "persuade" them to come back into the Union, we should allow them to depart in peace. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
  • I have already explained how the concept of a moment conciliates the observed fact with this ideal; namely, there is a limiting simplicity in the quantitative expression of the properties of durations, which is arrived at by considering any one of the abstractive sets included in the moment. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
  • The theory of the French writer is that Ibsen's constant aim is to reconcile and to conciliate the two biological hypotheses which have divided opinion in the nineteenth century, and which are known respectively by the names of Cuvier and Lamarck; namely, that of the invariability of species and that of the mutability of organic forms. Henrik Ibsen
  • It is nearly impossible to conciliate these two disagreeing parties.
  • As we have seen, it has a conciliation function through its conciliation officers with regard to cases brought in employment tribunals, but also seeks to conciliate in trade disputes.
  • An independent adviser has been brought in to conciliate between the two sides involved in the conflict.
  • You are all the time trying to conciliate rival claims.
  • The President has a strong political urge to conciliate.
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