reconcile
verbUK /ˈɹɛkənsaɪl/ · CA, US /ˈɹɛkənˌsaɪl/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin reconciliō.
1
Ambitransitive To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony.
- to reconcile people who have quarrelled
- to wait until others have reconciled
2
To make things compatible or consistent.
- to reconcile differences
- Some Figures monstrous and mis-shap'd appear, Consider'd singly, or beheld too near, Which, but proportion'd to their Light, or Place, Due Distance reconciles to Form and Grace1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:
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- The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.1693, [John Locke], “§2015”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:
3
Accounting, Business, Finance To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
- Derived terms
- irreconcile, reconcilability, reconcilable, reconcilee, reconcilement, reconciler, reconciliation, reconcilingly, unreconcile, unreconciled, unreconciling
- Related terms
- conciliate