Associations to the word «Conciliate»

Wiktionary

CONCILIATE, verb. Make calm and content; placate.
CONCILIATE, verb. Mediate in a dispute.

Dictionary definition

CONCILIATE, verb. Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer".
CONCILIATE, verb. Come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up".
CONCILIATE, verb. Make (one thing) compatible with (another); "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats