reconcile
part of speech
verb (reconcile, reconciles, reconciled, reconciling); noun «reconciliation»
meaning for a pupil
1) To make friends again after a quarrel: «The two friends were reconciled». tree →
2) To make two ideas, facts or needs agree with each other, or show that they can both be true. tree →
3) (reconcile yourself to) To accept something unpleasant that you cannot change. tree →
4) (money) To check that two sets of figures, such as bank records and receipts, match. tree →
5) (church) In Christian teaching, to be brought back into friendship with God; the sacrament of Reconciliation is confession in the Catholic Church. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Sefer Yetzirah it means to bring two opposites into balance by standing between them. Interpretation: In Sefer Yetzirah the letter Aleph, standing for air, balances silent Water (Mem) and hissing Fire (Shin) like the tongue of a scale. In the primary lessons: In stories and ethics lessons: two characters reconcile after a fight; making peace is brave. In maths and money: reconciling accounts means checking that totals match. In formal writing: reconcile different views. In church life: Catholics speak of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, where a person confesses their sins to a priest and is forgiven, as they believe. Phrases: «reconcile with», «be reconciled», «reconcile yourself to», «reconcile the accounts».
examples
- The three fundamental letters א״מ״ש signify, as מ is mute like the water and ש hissing like the fire, there is א among them, a breath of air which reconciles them. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- Water is silent, Fire is sibilant, and Air derived fron the Spirit is as the tongue of a balance standing between these contraries which are in equilibrium, reconciling and mediating between them. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- Water is silent, Fire is sibilant, and Air derived from the Spirit is as the tongue of a balance standing between these contraries which are in equilibrium, reconciling and mediating between them. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- After a week of not talking, the two friends were reconciled. tree →
- Mum and her sister finally reconciled after years apart. tree →
- It is hard to reconcile wanting to save money with wanting a new game. tree →
- He reconciled himself to missing the trip because he was ill. tree →
- Dad reconciled his bank statement with his receipts and found a mistake. tree →
- Our story ended with the two kings reconciled and the war over. tree →
- Catholics believe that in the Sacrament of Reconciliation, God forgives their sins. tree →
- When King Pippin heard that he begged his brother’s pardon, and they were reconciled at once and became good friends. tree →
note
Regular verb: reconciled. Stress: REC-on-sile. Noun: reconciliation (rec-on-sil-ee-AY-shun). «Reconcile with» a person; «reconcile yourself to» a situation. In money tasks, when two lists are reconciled, the totals must be equal; any difference is a mistake to find.
In the corpora
- Sometimes political arguments make relatives fall out and stop talking; many families reconcile, often by agreeing to talk about other things.
- An apology is a meeting, not a message: Jesus said to go and be reconciled first (Matthew 5:23-24).
Trees and pragmatics
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