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reconciler|ˈrɛkənsaɪlə(r)|
Also 6 -or, -our.
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who reconciles. Cf. reconciliator.
1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1594) 102 Sent from heaven to be a common reformer, governor, and reconcilour of the whole world. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 457 He accepted of him to be a Moderator and Reconciler of Differences in Religion. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 381 In order to maintain the character I have assumed in this volume of a reconciler between religion and reason. 1836Hor. Smith Tin Trump. (1876) 265 The reconciler of all misgivings. 1884Courthope Addison ix. 163 He is to be regarded as the reconciler of parties, and founder of public opinion.
b. spec. applied to Christ.
1563Foxe A. & M. 1035/1 Christ, our only and sufficient mediatour, reconcilor, priest and sacrifice. 1616Hayward Sanct. Troub. Soul i. vi. (1620) 99 O Reconciler! whom wilt thou reconcile to thy Father..? 1690Norris Beatitudes (1692) 3 Blessing became the mouth of him, who was the Reconciler of God and Man. 1875Lightfoot Comm. Col. (ed. 2) 180 The conception of the person of Christ as..the true and only reconciler of heaven and earth.
2. That which reconciles; † spec. a reconciling argument or statement.
1588Fraunce Lawiers Log. i. ii. 7 That which they call Medium, a third argument, is, as it were, an Arbiter honorarius, a determiner, a reconciler. 1615Crooke Body of Man 921 If it be obiected out of Galen..We answere with the Reconciler; that Galen then speaketh of membranous and broade ligaments which issue from the bones. 1654Fuller (title) A Triple Reconciler, stating the Controversies [etc.]. 1830Lytton P. Clifford xxvi, The universal reconciler—custom. 1860J. W. Warter Sea-board II. 453 Many a hard grip of the hand..was a sure Reconciler.
attrib.a1700Dryden Iliad i. 613 The Reconciler Bowl, went round the Board.
b. Shipbuilding. (See quots.)
1849[see reconciling ppl. a. b]. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 140 Reconciler or reconciling sweep. A curve which reconciles the floor and lower breadth sweeps together, and thus the shape of the body is formed below the breadth.
So ˈreconciless, a female reconciler.
1865Pusey Truth Eng. Ch. 179 Being..the most powerful mediatress and reconciless (conciliatrix) of the whole world with her only-begotten Son. |