reconcilern.

c1531 G. Joye Lett. Ashwell to Lyncolne sig. B^v Christe came not as a lawyer like Moses but he was the very redemer and reconcyler of the beleuers thorow his bloude into his fathers fauour and grace.

a1555 J. Rogers in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 1035/1 Christ, our only and sufficient mediatour, reconcilor, priest and sacrifice.

1616 J. Hayward Sanctuarie Troubled Soule (1620) i. vi. 99 O Reconciler! whom wilt thou reconcile to thy Father?

1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 3 Blessing became the Mouth of him, who was the Reconciler of God and Man.

1723 T. Davye Disc. Covenant of Grace iv. 24 That Covenant [between God and Adam] was made without, because there was no Necessity of a Mediator; this [sc. the Covenant of Grace] with and by a Mediator and Reconciler, i.e. Jesus Christ.

1760 W. Law Of Justif. by Faith & Wks. 74 Christ was the Reconciler between God and Man, only and solely by that which he was, did, suffered, and obtained by and through his whole Process.

1858 F. D. Huntington Serm. for People (ed. 5) xxvi. 439 Christ the Reconciler, who comes into the world quite as much to impart to us of God, as to be the perfect pattern of a man.

1875 J. B. Lightfoot St. Paul's Epist. Colossians & Philemon 180 The conception of the Person of Christ as..the true and only reconciler of heaven and earth.

1917 Amer. Jrnl. Theol. 21 229 Christ is first reconciler and giver of grace, and only secondly, moral pattern.

1961 G. Brantl Catholicism (1962) iv. 73 The Son..is for us the way, the truth, and the life: the reconciler of man with God.

2000 F. Watson Agape, Eros, Gender vi. 234 The bridging of the gulf between above and below by Christ the reconciler is, if not the abolition, at least the deconstruction of patriarchal marriage.

1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Confessyon Fayth Germaynes sig. L.vii ^v This ymagination..in the stede of Christe maketh vnto vs other mediatours and reconcilers that is to wete bysshops and prestes.

1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 108 Sent from heauen to be a common refourmer, gouernour, and reconcilour of the whole world.

1605 E. Sandys Relation State of Relig. sig. V True it is that a forreine enemie is a reconciler of bretheren; and that common daunger holdes them together.

1649 J. Lightfoot Battle with Wasp's Nest in Wks. (1825) I. 407 If you be so good a reconciler, I pray begin at home: the Evangelists need none of your day'smanship.

1700 J. Dryden tr. Homer 1st Bk. Ilias in Fables 219 The Reconciler Bowl, went round the Board.

1765 J. Wesley Let. 9 Apr. (1931) IV. 293 You appear to be designed by Divine Providence for an healer of breaches, a reconciler of honest but prejudiced men.

1860 J. W. Warter Sea-board & Down II. 453 Many a hard grip of the hand..was a sure Reconciler.

1884 W. J. Courthope Addison ix. 163 He is to be regarded as the reconciler of parties, and founder of public opinion.

1927 E. H. Haight Apuleius & his Infl. ii. 31 Before..he could act as a reconciler in the family relations Pontianus died.

1950 G. C. Bellamy M. Twain as Literary Artist ii. viii. 136 Mark Twain recognized the value of Humor as the great reconciler.

2006 Christianity Today Nov. 45/1 In England, I began to understand that African Americans are uniquely positioned to be reconcilers all around the world.

1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. ii. f. 7 That which they call Medium, a third argument, is, as it were, an Arbiter honorarius, a determiner, a reconciler.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 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.

1654 T. Fuller (title) A Triple Reconciler, stating the Controversies [etc.].

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 457 He accepted of him to be a Moderator and Reconciler of Differences in Religion.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 194 In order to maintain the character I have assumed in this Volume of a reconciler between Religion and Reason.

1843 H. James Let. 11 May in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 47 I believe Jonathan Edwards..would, after an honest study of the philosophy that has grown up since his day, make the best possible reconciler and critic of philosophy.

1885 T. H. Huxley Coll. Ess. (1893) IV. 157 Those modern representatives of Sisyphus, the reconcilers of Genesis with science.

1912 B. P. Bowne Kant & Spencer 8 In this work Kant appeared as a reconciler of the two previous directions in philosophy.

1957 R. H. Fogle in C. D. Thorpe Major Eng. Romantic Poets ii. 18 The prime reconciler of oppositions is as we all know the Romantic imagination.

1998 R. J. S. J. Roth Radical Pragmatism v. 101 He [sc. William James] proposed pragmatism as the happy harmonizer, the reconciler between rationalism and empiricism.

1805 Shipwright's Vade-mecum 124 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.

1850 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. iii. 371/1 Reconciler, a mould sometimes used to form the hollow in the topside, which is called the reconciling mould.