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Reconcile vs Council - What's the difference?

reconcile | council |

As a verb reconcile

is to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.

As a noun council is

a committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).

reconcile

English

(reconciliation)

Verb

(reconcil)
  • To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
    • to reconcile people who have quarrelled
  • To make things compatible or consistent.
    • to reconcile differences
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, / Considered singly, or beheld too near; / Which, but proportioned to their light or place, / Due distance reconciles to form and grace.
  • * John Locke
    • The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.
  • To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

    • Derived terms

    * reconciliation

    council

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
  • Discussion or deliberation.
  • * Milton
    • Satan void of rest, / His potentates to council called by night.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • O great in action and in council wise.

    Hyponyms

    * synod

    See also

    * counsel