To reconcile is to bring people back into friendly relations after a disagreement, or to make two ideas or facts agree with each other.
From Latin *reconciliare* meaning ‘to bring together again, restore to union’, from *re-* (again) + *conciliare* (to bring together, make friendly). It originally referred to restoring friendship or peace.
When you reconcile with a friend, you’re literally ‘making friendly again.’ In accounting, ‘reconciling’ accounts is doing the same thing with numbers—forcing them to agree on what really happened.
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