Reconcile vs Conciliate

Reconcile

– verb-

 To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.

to reconcile people who have quarrelled

• To make things compatible or consistent.

to reconcile differences

• * Alexander Pope

Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, / Considered singly, or beheld too near; / Which, but proportioned to their light or place, / Due distancereconciles to form and grace.

• * John Locke

The great men among the ancients understood how toreconcile manual labour with affairs of state.

• To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

• Derived terms:  reconciliation

 

Reconcile ‎(third-person singular simple present reconciles, present participle reconciling, simple past and past participle reconciled)

1. To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.

   to reconcile people who have quarrelled

2. To make things compatible or consistent.  [quotations ▼]

   to reconcile differences

3. To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

Conciliate

Verb

(conciliat)

• Make calm and content; placate.
• Mediate in a dispute.

Quotations

* Frankness and openness conciliate confidence.

Derived terms:  conciliatory

As verbs the difference between conciliate and reconcile is that conciliate is make calm and content; placate while reconcile is to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.

Source:

http://wikidiff.com/reconcile/conciliate

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reconcile

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/conciliate