Conciliated

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To act in a way that ends anger or disagreement and restores friendliness
2. To resolve conflicts by calming emotions and promoting harmony
3. To bring about peace by easing tensions and settling disputes

Etymology: "Conciliated" is the past tense and past participle of "conciliate," so its history is the history of the verb itself. The verb comes from Latin "conciliatus," the past participle of "conciliare," meaning "to unite" or "to bring together." That Latin verb was built on "concilium," a word for a council or meeting, so the original idea was of people being gathered into one place or brought into agreement. The thread from that Latin sense to the modern meaning is a short one. Bringing people together in a shared assembly and bringing opposing parties into harmony both rest on the same notion of drawing separate sides into a single accord. The English verb carries that sense of uniting what was divided, so to conciliate an angry person is to bring them back into a state of agreement with you.

Synonyms: reconciled, settled, resolved, pacified, appeased

Antonyms: alienated, estranged, discontented, unsettled