Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




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."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Conclude" Quotes from Famous Books



... conclude?" said Rastignac, with that curtness of speech which to a prolix speaker is a warning ...
— The Deputy of Arcis • Honore de Balzac
... against whom Origen wrote is the friend to whom Lucian has addressed his life of the magician Alexander of Abonoteichus. The arguments on this question are stated and weighed in Neander's Kirchengeschichte, vol. i. 169, and Baur's Geschichte der drei ersten Jahrhunderte, p. 371. Both conclude that the persons were different. The evidence of their oneness is chiefly Origen's conjecture that they were the same person (Cont. Celsum. iv. 36.) The evidence against it is, (1) that Lucian's friend attacked magical rites; the Celsus of Origen seems to have believed them; (2) that ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar
... Here then I conclude: I must say, adieu! Yet can I not do so before I again assure you that if perchance I may have lightened an hour of your solitude, you, my kind friends, have made happy whole weeks and days of ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... madame,' answered my father trembling, 'fourteen days ago I presented a petition to the king.' 'And have you received no answer yet?' she asked quickly. 'I see you every day here with the lad there, and conclude you are still hoping for an answer.' 'So it is, madame,' answered my father, 'I expect an answer, that is I expect a decision involving my life or death.' 'Poor man!' said the queen, with a tone of deep sympathy. 'Fourteen days of such waiting must be dreadful! I pity ...
— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach
... those characters of unanimity and frenzy, which were displayed by the acclamations, that had accompanied him from the gulf of Juan to the gates of Paris. It would be a mistake, however, to infer, that the Parisians did not behold the return of Napoleon with pleasure. We must only conclude, therefore, that the Emperor missed the proper time for ...
— Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I • Pierre Antoine Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com