Conciliate

 WORD OF THE DAY

conciliate / verb / kun-SILL-ee-ayt

Definition
1: appease
2: to gain (something, such as goodwill) by pleasing acts
3a: to make compatible
3b: reconcile
4: to become friendly or agreeable

Examples
"Oklahoma City established a human rights commission Tuesday for the first time in more than a quarter century. The new nine-member commission ... will be charged with investigating and addressing employment, housing and public accommodations discrimination complaints. ... An investigation can either lead to dismissal of the complaint or an attempt by the commission to conciliate between the complainant and the accused party."
— Jana Hayes, The Oklahoman, 19 July 2022

Refusing either to conciliate or coerce Southern states rushing headlong into secession, Lincoln maintained...
— Harold Holzer, WSJ, 15 May 2020

Did You Know?
Now here’s a people pleaser. The immediate source of conciliate is a form of the Latin verb conciliare, meaning "to assemble, unite, win over," and when conciliate was first used in the 16th century, the idea of winning over was key; it was used to mean "to gain something, such as goodwill or favor, by pleasing acts."
Today, conciliate is mostly used in contexts where appease or reconcile is a more common choice, as in "a refusal to conciliate the dictator," and "efforts to conciliate the views of those on opposing sides."
Like the word council, conciliate ultimately traces back to the Latin word concilium, meaning "assembly, council."