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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/conciliate/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/conciliate/#x1)
- He tried to conciliate his angry sister with a present. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/conciliate/#x2)
- The king sent gifts to conciliate the angry gods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/conciliate/#x3)
- A sorry note may conciliate a cross teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/conciliate/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «conciliate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/conciliate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.