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Concluding   /kənklˈudɪŋ/   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."





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"Concluding" Quotes from Famous Books



... the comedy of Timon, if the whole of it is written as well as the concluding address of the misanthrope (which Mr. Panizzi has extracted into his pages), it must be very pleasant. Timon conceals a treasure in a tomb, and thinks he has baffled some knaves who had a design upon it. He therefore takes leave of his audience with ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2 • Leigh Hunt
... of remark in this letter would be the concluding sentence, in which the First Consul still affected to acknowledge the sovereignty of the people, were it not that the words "Citizens Consuls" were evidently foisted in with a particular design. The battle was gained; ...
— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
... devoted much space to accounts of the ceremonies and festivities connected with the unveiling of the monument. Some of them seemed to regard it as an emotional display, and others found it impossible to read the accounts without concluding that the Japanese and Russians had wellnigh, if not altogether, laid aside their feeling ...
— Travels in the Far East • Ellen Mary Hayes Peck
... epistle, Mr. Richard Grubb was favoured with a line from Mr. Augustus Spriggs, expressive of his unbounded delight in having prevailed upon his governor to 'let him out;' and concluding with a promise of ...
— The Sketches of Seymour (Illustrated), Complete • Robert Seymour
... the Boulevards to the Folies-Bergere, which had been turned for the time into a public club, and there we listened awhile to Citizen Lermina, who, taking Thiers's mission and Bismarck's despatch as his text, protested against France concluding any peace or even any armistice so long as the Germans had not withdrawn across the frontier. There was still no little talk of that description. The old agitator Auguste Blanqui—long confined in one of the cages ...
— My Days of Adventure - The Fall of France, 1870-71 • Ernest Alfred Vizetelly


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