reconcile

reconcile
    v 1: make (one thing) compatible with (another); "The scientists
         had to accommodate the new results with the existing
         theories" [syn: {accommodate}, {reconcile}, {conciliate}]
    2: bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one's goals with
       one's abilities" [syn: {harmonize}, {harmonise}, {reconcile}]
    3: come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up"
       [syn: {reconcile}, {patch up}, {make up}, {conciliate},
       {settle}]
    4: accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate" [syn:
       {resign}, {reconcile}, {submit}]
    

Reconcile \Rec"on*cile`\, v. i.
   To become reconciled. [Obs.]
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Reconcile \Rec"on*cile`\ (-s?l`), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Reconciled} (-s?ld`); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reconciling}.] [F.
   r['e]concilier, 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.
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            Propitious now and reconciled by prayer. --Dryden.
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            The church [if defiled] is interdicted till it be
            reconciled [i.e., restored to sanctity] by the
            bishop.                               --Chaucer.
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            We pray you . . . be ye reconciled to God. --2 Cor.
                                                  v. 20.
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   2. To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission;
      as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.
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   3. To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or
      suitableness; -- followed by with or to.
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            The great men among the ancients understood how to
            reconcile manual labor with affairs of state.
                                                  --Locke.
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            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. --Pope.
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   4. To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.
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   Syn: To reunite; conciliate; placate; propitiate; pacify;
        appease.
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99 Moby Thesaurus words for "reconcile":
      accept, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, adapt, adapt to,
      adjust, adjust to, agree with, arrange matters, assimilate,
      assimilate to, attune, be guided by, bend, bring to terms,
      bring together, bury the hatchet, chime in with, comply,
      comply with, compose, compromise, condone, conform, coordinate,
      correct, correspond, countenance, cut to, discipline, equalize,
      fall in with, fit, fix, fix up, follow, gear to, go by,
      grin and abide, harmonize, heal the breach, homologate, homologize,
      integrate, key to, let go by, let pass, make conform, make peace,
      make plumb, make uniform, measure, mediate, meet, mold, obey,
      observe, overlook, patch things up, placate, proportion,
      put in tune, quadrate, rectify, regulate, resign, resolve,
      restore harmony, reunite, right, rise above, rub off corners, set,
      set right, settle, settle differences, shape, shrug, shrug it off,
      similarize, smooth it over, square, straighten, submit, submit to,
      suit, sync, synchronize, tailor, tally with, trim to, true,
      true up, tune, unite, weave peace between, yield, yield to