conciliate

Borrowed from Latin conciliātus, perfect passive participle of conciliō (“I unite”), from concilium (“council, meeting”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌkənˈsɪlieɪt/

conciliate (third-person singular simple present conciliates, present participle conciliating, simple past and past participle conciliated)

1. (transitive) To make calm and content, or regain the goodwill of; to placate.
   • 1790, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments; […] In Two Volumes, volume II, 6th edition, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell […]; Edinburgh: W[illiam] Creech, and J. Bell & Co., OCLC 723510352, part VII (Of Systems of Moral Philosophy), section IV (Of the Manner in which Different Authors have Treated of the Practical Rules of Morality), page 387:

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

2. (intransitive) To mediate in a dispute.

• conciliatory

• conciliation
• council
• reconcile, reconciliate

conciliate

1. second-person plural present indicative of conciliare
2. second-person plural imperative of conciliare
3. second-person plural present subjunctive of conciliare
4. feminine plural of conciliato

conciliāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of conciliō