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)
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. - 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. - ROUSE
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. - 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 - PISTILLIFEROUS
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. - CAPACIFY
To quality. The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow. - DISTILLABLE
Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable. - 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