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conciliation|kənˌsɪlɪˈeɪʃən|
[ad. L. conciliātiōn-em, n. of action from conciliāre to conciliate. So F. conciliation (in Cotgr.).]
1. a. The action of bringing into harmony; harmonizing, reconcilement.
1543Bale Yet a Course, etc. 52 b (T.) The concylyacion of the holye scriptures and most auncient fathers. 1558Proclam. Q. Eliz. in Strype Ann. Ref. I. App. iii. 3 Until consultation may be had..for the better conciliation and accord of such causes as..are moved in matters and ceremonies of religion. 1678Gale Crt. Gentiles III. 210 The conciliation of human libertie with Divine preditermination of the wil. 1877H. Spencer Princ. Sociol. I. 626 This conciliation of the interests of the species, the parents, and the young.
b. court (tribunal) of conciliation: a court for composing disputes by offering to the parties a voluntary settlement, the case proceeding to a judicial court if this is not accepted.
1803Syd. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 55/2 The Tribunal of Conciliation, established since 1795, is composed of the most intelligent and respectable men in the vicinage.
2. The gaining or winning by quiet means.
1553Lady Jane Grey in Strype Eccl. Mem. III. Introd. 6 To..proceed in the former commission, for the conciliation of some good peace between our said good brother and the French King. a1646J. Gregory Posthuma (1650) 65 (T.) To the conciliation of rest and sleep, it is required that there be a moderate repletion. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 81 ⁋8 Beneficence needful to the conciliation of the divine favour.
†3. Peaceable or friendly union. Obs.
1655–50Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 628/1 Considering the conciliation of men among themselves. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 896 Were there not a Natural Conciliation of all Rational Creatures..men could [not] have made any firm Cities or Polities.
4. a. Conversion from a state of hostility or distrust; the promotion of good will by kind and considerate measures; the exhibition of a spirit of amity, practice of conciliatory measures.
1775Burke Sp. Concil. Colonies Wks. III. 26 If, Sir, we incline to the side of conciliation, we are not at all embarrassed..by any incongruous mixture of coercion and restraint. 1792Anecd. W. Pitt III. xliii. 158 Let conciliation follow chastisement. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iv. 290 A policy of studied conciliation. 1880McCarthy Own Times IV. lvi. 224 The effect of conciliation was..tried.
b. attrib.
1839Marryat Diary Amer. Ser. i. III. 18 Government..defrays the whole expenses under the head of Conciliation Money. 1886Pall Mall G. 19 Aug. 1/1 Last year, when the Tories were on the conciliation line.
c. Any of various means whereby disputes between employer and employees may be settled by agreement without proceeding to arbitration.
1876H. Crompton Industrial Conciliation iii. 33 The development of arbitration and conciliation in industry is characterised by the increasing prominence of conciliation. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXV. 550/1 The term ‘conciliation’ is ordinarily used to cover a large number of methods of settlement, shading off in the one direction into ‘arbitration’ and in the other into ordinary direct negotiation between the parties. 1909Hansard's Parl. Deb. Ser. v. II. 1627 The conciliation scheme arranged in November, 1907, between representative railway companies and the railway workers. 1957Encycl. Brit. XII. 300/2 Conciliation is usually compulsory in countries which have compulsory arbitration, notably in Germany, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, and in Venezuela.
5. Rhet.
[1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Conciliatio, a Figure in Rhetorick. See Synœceosis.] 1828Whately Rhet. in Encycl. Metrop. 267/1 In no point more than in..the Conciliation (to adopt the term of the Latin writers) of the hearers, is it requisite to consider who and what the hearers are.
7. attrib., as conciliation act, conciliation board.
[1867Act 30 & 31 Vict. c. 105 §18 In citing this Act for any Purpose whatever it shall be sufficient to use the Expression ‘The Councils of Conciliation Act, 1867’.] 1876H. Crompton Industrial Conciliation ii. 18 A conciliation board has standing committees..and is in fact a machinery for accommodating the conflicting interests of employers and employed. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXV. 552/2 The Conciliation Act passed in 1896. Ibid. 550/1 The conciliation boards established under the New Zealand Arbitration Act of 1894. 1909W. S. Churchill in Hansard's Parl. Deb. Ser. v. II. 1628 A conciliation board has been established for the Great Northern and City Railway. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 8 Oct. 6/5 As the question is likely to be brought before a conciliation board in the near future, the Council will probably withhold action [etc.]. 1965Oxf. N.Z. Encycl. 108/2 Since 1894 the wages and conditions of employment of most workers in New Zealand..have been settled by agreements or awards made under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act.
Hence conciliˈationist, an advocate of a policy of conciliation.
1826Blackw. Mag. XX. 228 Shall we fear to tell those Conciliationists that we can do very well without their good opinion? |