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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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Etymology of 'Conclude'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... not deny, that human reason is powerful within its own province. It may discover in the beautiful structure of the Universe, and in the harmony and fitness of all its parts, the hand of a great contriver. It may conclude upon attributes, as belonging to the same. It may see the fitness of virtue, and deduce from thence a speculative morality. They only say that it, is incompetent to spiritual discernment. But though they believe the two spirits to be thus distinct ...

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... her out a third time. Now why this preference for the number seven? why not five or ten days, or any other number? Can it be supposed that his fixing on upon seven was accidental? How much more natural to conclude that it was in obedience to the authority of God, as expressed in the 2d chap. of Gen. A similar division of time is incidentally mentioned in Gen. xxix:—"fulfill her week and we will give thee this ...

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... front the country lay stretched out, with its hedges and trees, its fields and farmhouses. In certain places there ran long rows of poles with strips of brown material stretched between them, which a spectator would rightly conclude was camouflage erected to screen the roads. Only from what? Where was the Boche in this atmosphere ...

— Mufti • H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

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