conclude
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conclude
- /kənˈkluːd/
Rhymes with -uːd
Where it comes from
From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin conclūdere (“to shut up, close, end”).
verb concludes · concluding · concluded
- To end; to come to an end. The story concluded with a moral.
- To bring to an end; to close; to finish. I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.
- To bring about as a result; to effect; to make. to conclude a bargain
- To come to a conclusion, to a final decision. From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.
- 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.
- To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar. The defendant is concluded by his own plea.
- To shut up; to enclose. The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.
- To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine. Banisht the Court? Let me be banisht Life; Since the chief end of Life is there concluded: Within the Court is all the Kingdom bounded, And as her sacred Sphear doth comprehend Ten thousand times so much, as so much Place In any part of all the Empire else; So every Body, moving in her Sphear, Cont
- to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)
