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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope