concierge

[Fr., from O. Fr. consierge, from Low Lat. consergius: con - cum -with, together; cerco, circo to go round, from circum = [SEARCH.] *1. A keeper or governor of a fortre or castle. 2. A porter, a door-keeper, a janitor. con-çil-i-a-ble, a. [Lat. conciliabilis.] Capable of being reconciled or accorded with anything. "Nor doth he put away adulterously who complains of causes rooted in immutable nature, utter unfitne , utter disconformity, not conciliable, because not to be amended without a miracle." -Milton : Tetrachord on. conciliabule; Lat. conciliabulum, from con cilium = con-çil-1-a-ble, *con-çil-l-a-bule, s. [Fr. an a embly.] [COUNCIL.] A small or private religious meeting, a conventicle. "Some have sought the truth in the conventicles and."-Bacon: Of conciliables of heretics and sectaries Controv, of the Ch. of England.