conciliate

present singular third person conciliates · participle present conciliating · participle past conciliated · past conciliated

1. obsoletetransitiveTo acquire, to procure.

   Frankneſs and openneſs conciliate confidence. We truſt the man who ſeems willing to truſt us.

   1790, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments; […] In Two Volumes, 6th edition, volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell […]; Edinburgh: W[illiam] Creech, and J. Bell & Co., →OCLC, part VII, section IV (Of the Manner in which Different Authors have Treated of the Practical Rules of Morality), page 387

2. archaictransitiveTo reconcile (discordant theories, demands etc.); to make compatible, bring together.

   It must surely then happen, to a much greater degree, in a great nation, whose government is suddenly dissolved by the resolution of the people; and which, in taking a new form, has so many jarring interests to conciliate […].

   1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 324

3. transitiveTo make calm and content, or regain the goodwill of; to placate; to propitiate.

   `Surely, my father,' I answered courteously, feeling certain that I should do well to conciliate this ancient Mammon of Unrighteousness.

   1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

4. intransitiveTo mediate in a dispute.