reconcile
    v 1: make (one thing) compatible with (another); "The scientists
         had to accommodate the new results with the existing
         theories" [syn: accommodate, reconcile, conciliate]
    2: bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one's goals with
       one's abilities" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, reconcile]
    3: come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up"
       [syn: reconcile, patch up, make up, conciliate,
       settle]
    4: accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate" [syn:
       resign, reconcile, submit]

Reconcile \Rec"on*cile`\ (-s?l`), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   Reconciled (-s?ld`); p. pr. & vb. n. Reconciling.] [F.
   r['e]concilier, L. reconciliare; pref. re- re- + conciliare
   to bring together, to unite. See Conciliate.]
   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.
      [1913 Webster]

            Propitious now and reconciled by prayer. --Dryden.
      [1913 Webster]

            The church [if defiled] is interdicted till it be
            reconciled [i.e., restored to sanctity] by the
            bishop.                               --Chaucer.
      [1913 Webster]

            We pray you . . . be ye reconciled to God. --2 Cor.
                                                  v. 20.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission;
      as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or
      suitableness; -- followed by with or to.
      [1913 Webster]

            The great men among the ancients understood how to
            reconcile manual labor with affairs of state.
                                                  --Locke.
      [1913 Webster]

            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.
      [1913 Webster]

   4. To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.
      [1913 Webster]

   Syn: To reunite; conciliate; placate; propitiate; pacify;
        appease.
        [1913 Webster]

Reconcile \Rec"on*cile`\, v. i.
   To become reconciled. [Obs.]
   [1913 Webster]