v. Obs. Also 4 consile, 6 conceill, -ciele, 7 conceale. [ad. F. concilier or L. conciliāre: see CONCILIATE.]

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  1.  trans. To make to agree; to reconcile.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VIII. xxxiii. (Tollem. MS.). Also by vertu of hem [stars] elementis þat ben contrary eche to oþir ben consiled [1535 concyled, Lat. conciliantur] and acordid.

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1540.  Hyrde, trans. Vives’ Instr. Chr. Wom. (1592), M j. Whom she hath conciled unto thee.

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1570.  Levins, Manip., 131/14. To concile, conciliare.

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a. 1661.  Fuller, Worthies, II. 339. He … in some sort was conciled to the Church of Rome.

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a. 1687.  H. More, True Crucifixe, 18. Thus man to God, earth to conceale to heaven.

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1744.  Eliza Heywood, Fem. Spect. (1748), I. Ded. To … concile the sparkling Ideas of the one with the correcting Judgment of the other.

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  2.  To conciliate.

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1545.  Raynold, Byrth Mankynde, B 8. The difficultie to conciele the good wyll of peruert people.

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1555.  Eden, Decades, 18. To concyle vnto hym the frendeshyppe of the Admirall.

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1622.  Bp. Hall, Serm., 15 Sept. (1627), 494. The matron cares onely to concile loue by a graue & gracefull modesty.

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