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Conclude   /kənklˈud/   Listen
verb
Conclude  v. t.  (past & past part. concluded; pres. part. concluding)  
1.
To shut up; to inclose. (Obs.) "The very person of Christ (was) concluded within the grave."
2.
To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace. (Obs.) "For God hath concluded all in unbelief." "The Scripture hath concluded all under sin."
3.
To reach as an end of reasoning; to infer, as from premises; to close, as an argument, by inferring; sometimes followed by a dependent clause. "No man can conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him." "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith."
4.
To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide. "But no frail man, however great or high, Can be concluded blest before he die." "Is it concluded he shall be protector?"
5.
To bring to an end; to close; to finish. "I will conclude this part with the speech of a counselor of state."
6.
To bring about as a result; to effect; to make; as, to conclude a bargain. "If we conclude a peace."
7.
To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; generally in the passive; as, the defendant is concluded by his own plea; a judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence argument. "If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it."
Synonyms: To infer; decide; determine; settle; close; finish; terminate; end.


Conclude  v. i.  
1.
To come to a termination; to make an end; to close; to end; to terminate. "A train of lies, That, made in lust, conclude in perjuries." "And, to conclude, The victory fell on us."
2.
To form a final judgment; to reach a decision. "Can we conclude upon Luther's instability?" "Conclude and be agreed."





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"Conclude" Quotes from Famous Books



... see her re-enter the drawing-room with a look of relief. She saw that the matter was decided, but she was too wise to conclude that it was decided according ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 • Various
... persistently refuses to vary; and that, when it has once begun to vary, its varieties are not the less but the more subject to variation. "No case is on record of a variable being ceasing to be variable under cultivation." It is fair to conclude, from the observation of plants and animals in a wild as well as domesticated state, that the tendency to vary is general, and even universal. Mr. Darwin does "not believe that variability is an inherent and necessary contingency, under all circumstances, ...
— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray
... office appointed to ask mercy for others and bear them on our hearts before God? We must not therefore conclude that mercy is not necessary for us. Like the high priests of old, "We must offer, first for own sins, and then for the people's." There is only one intercessor to whom this ...
— Sermons on Various Important Subjects • Andrew Lee
... which conclude the characteristic song in the third act of Love for Love, are typical of his attitude. Does anybody suppose that an intelligent man of the world meant that sentiment in ...
— The Comedies of William Congreve - Volume 1 [of 2] • William Congreve
... dear Anne, the money is from her mother, and I must tell you that I've often wondered if that estimable lady is really dead at all. Then, you know, that I always kept up with John, and that I knew something about Sir David Bright. To conclude, Rose Bright is my cousin by marriage, and we are all dumbfounded at finding that she has been left L800 a year instead of twice as many thousands, and that the fortune has gone to a lady named Madame ...
— Great Possessions • Mrs. Wilfrid Ward


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