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noun

Conclusion n.

1.

The last part of anything; close; termination; end. "A fluorish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest."

2.

Final decision; determination; result. "And the conclusion is, she shall be thine."

3.

Any inference or result of reasoning.

4.

(Logic) The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions called premises. See Syllogism. "He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion."

5.

Drawing of inferences. (Poetic) "Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes And still conclusion."

6.

An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn. (Obs.) "We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating."

7.

(Law)

(a)

The end or close of a pleading, e.g., the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace," etc.

(b)

An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.

Conclusion to the country (Law), the conclusion of a pleading by which a party "puts himself upon the country," i.e., appeals to the verdict of a jury.

In conclusion.

(a)

Finally.

(b)

In short.

To try conclusions, to make a trial or an experiment. "Like the famous ape, To try conclusions, in the basket creep."

Synonyms: Inference; deduction; result; consequence; end; decision. See Inference.

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"Conclusion" Quotes from Famous Books

... says of the rent in his camlet cloak, was but a trifle, yet it troubled me; and I was at a good deal of pains to efface any marks by which I thought my secret could be traced before the conclusion, when I relied on it with the same hope of producing effect, with which the Irish post-boy is said to reserve a "trot for ...

— The Lady of the Lake • Sir Walter Scott

... said Creep-and-Crawl, "Can one not get them to live in peace and quiet, and each mind his own business?" And he thought and thought, but he could come to no conclusion, and so he was obliged to conjure. "I must give them a color, that they may be more discernible!" said he; and so he poured something like a little drop of red wine into the drop of water, but it was bewitched blood ...

— A Christmas Greeting • Hans Christian Andersen

... probably wronged them in allowing it to dwell for a moment in my mind, I felt perhaps more tenderly than before towards them, and certainly indisposed to name to Eveena a suspicion of which I was myself ashamed. Perhaps, too, youth and beauty weighed in my conclusion more than cool reason would have allowed. A ...

— Across the Zodiac • Percy Greg

... Majesty's Government. If this be the sense of the passage in question, the duty of the undersigned can not be mistaken. He will transmit the note of His Excellency the Comte de Rigny to his Government and wait its instructions. Widely different will be his conduct if he is informed that the conclusion of the Comte de Rigny's note is intended as a direction that he should quit the French territory. This he will without delay comply with on being so informed and on receiving the passports necessary for his protection until he shall leave ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 1 (of 2) of Volume 3: Andrew Jackson (Second Term) • James D. Richardson

... almost come to the conclusion that the girl I had seen in the moonlight had been an apparition conjured up by my own imagination, when I glimpsed her, one afternoon, walking toward Hewitt Hall, where the art classes held session, in the upper rooms. I followed the girl, a long way behind. ...

— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

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