Reconcile

Definition of Reconcile

Rec´on`cile` Pronunciation: ~s?l`

v. t.	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. [imp. & p. p. Reconciled (-s?ld`); p. pr. & vb. n. Reconciling.] Propitious now and reconciled by prayer. - Dryden. The church [if defiled] is interdicted till it be reconciled [i.e., restored to sanctity] by the bishop. - Chaucer. We pray you . . . be ye reconciled to God. - 2 Cor. v. 20.
	2.	To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.
	3.	To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; - followed by with or to. The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labor with affairs of state. - Locke. 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.
	4.	To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.
v. i.	1.	To become reconciled.

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