Word Meanings - CONCILIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease. The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent, that it was

Additional info about word: CONCILIATE

To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease. The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent, that it was found expedient to conciliate the nation. Hallam. Syn. -- To reconcile; propitiate; appease; pacify.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONCILIATE)

• Attach
• Fasten
• apply
• append
• add
• fix
• subjoin
• annex
• unite
• conciliate
• tie
• connect
• conjoin
• attract
• win
• bind
• Endear
• gain
• Pacify
• Appease
• calm
• still
• soothe
• quiet
• tranquillize
• Propitiate
• Conciliate
• secure
• appease
• reconcile
• pacify
• Reconcile
• Unite
• propitiate
• harmonize
• adjust
• adapt
• suit
• reunite

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONCILIATE)

• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad
• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free

Related words: (words related to CONCILIATE)

• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• ANNEX
  to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to 1. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson. 2. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.
• STILLSTAND
  A standstill. Shak.
• APPENDICAL
  Of or like an appendix.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• STILLING
  A stillion.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• ENDEAR
  1. To make dear or beloved. "To be endeared to a king." Shak. 2. To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive. King James I. .
• ANNEXATION
  1. The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture.
• INSTILL
  To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
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  Pistillate.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• UNQUIET
  To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• CAPACIFY
  To quality. The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• DISTILLATION
  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible