conciliate

«conciliate» in Mova's judaism dictionary: angry, or win back their goodwill, by kind or generous acts — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (conciliate, conciliates, conciliated, conciliating)

meaning for a pupil

(formal) To calm someone who is angry, or win back their goodwill, by kind or generous acts. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah says air keeps the balance between fire and water. Later readers took this as a picture of harmony between opposites. In the primary lessons: in tales, a gift or sacrifice is made to calm an angry river or spirit

examples

• The Three are Water, Air and Fire ; Fire above, Water below, and Air conciliating between them ; and the sign of these things is that the Fire sustains (volatilizes) the waters ; Mem is mute. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
• He tried to conciliate his angry sister with a present. tree →
• The king sent gifts to conciliate the angry gods. tree →
• A sorry note may conciliate a cross teacher. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «conciliate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.