To acquire, to procure.
Frankneſs and openneſs conciliate confidence. We truſt the man who ſeems willing to truſt us.
To reconcile (discordant theories, demands etc.); to make compatible, bring together.
It must surely then happen, to a much greater degree, in a great nation, whose government is suddenly dissolved by the resolution of the people; and which, in taking a new form, has so many jarring interests to conciliate […].
To make calm and content, or regain the goodwill of; to placate; to propitiate.
`Surely, my father,' I answered courteously, feeling certain that I should do well to conciliate this ancient Mammon of Unrighteousness.
Borrowed from Latin conciliātus, perfect passive participle of conciliō (“I unite”), from concilium (“council, meeting”).
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