Definition of "conclude"

conclude

/kən.ˈkluːd/

verb
third-person singular simple present concludes, present participle concluding, simple past and past participle concluded
1. (intransitive) To end; to come to an end.
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  He inveighed against the folly of making oneself liable for the debts of others; vented many bitter execrations against the brother; and concluded with wishing something could be done for the unfortunate family.
  1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
2. (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
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  I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.
  a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629
3. (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
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  if we conclude a peace
  1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iv]
4. (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
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  No man can certainly conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.
  a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to Societies
5. (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
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  But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.
  1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
6. To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; generally in the passive.
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  If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
  a. 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677
7. (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
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  The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.
  1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, (please specify the page)
8. (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine.
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  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 comprehendTen thousand times so much, as so much PlaceIn any part of all the Empire else;So every Body, moving in her Sphear,Contains Ten thousand times as much in him,As any other, her choice Orb excludes.
  1601, Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, act IV, scene VIII originally but scene VII in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume II, page 493
  For God hath concluded all in unbelief.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Romans 11:32
  The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Galatians 3:22
9. (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)

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