▪ I. † conˈcile, v. Obs.
Also 4 consile, 6 conceill, -ciele, 7 conceale.
[ad. F. concilier or L. conciliāre: see conciliate.]
1. trans. To make to agree; to reconcile.
| 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. 1540 R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. (1592) M j, Whom she hath conciled unto thee. 1570 Levins Manip. 131/14 To concile, conciliare. a 1661 Fuller Worthies ii. 339 He..in some sort was conciled to the Church of Rome. a 1687 H. More True Crucifixe 18 Thus man to God, earth to conceale to heaven. 1744 Eliza Heywood Fem. Spect. (1748) I. Ded., To..concile the sparkling Ideas of the one with the correcting Judgment of the other. |
2. To conciliate.
| 1545 T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde B 8, The difficultie to conciele the good wyll of peruert people. 1555 Eden Decades 18 To concyle vnto hym the frendeshyppe of the Admirall. 1622 Bp. Hall Serm. 15 Sept. (1627) 494 The matron cares onely to concile loue by a graue & gracefull modesty. |
▪ II. concile
obs. form of counsel.