conclude

Verb

conclude (third-person singular simple present concludes, present participle concluding, simple past and past participle concluded)

1. (intransitive) To end; to come to an end.
   • The story concluded with a moral.
   • 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.
   • I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount...
3. (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
   • to conclude a bargain
   • if we conclude a peace1591 (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]...
4. (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
   • From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.
   • 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.
   • But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
6. (often passive voice) To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar.
   • The defendant is concluded by his own plea.
   • A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.
7. (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
   • The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.[1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)
8. (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine.
   • 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 comprehend
     Ten thousand times so much, as so much Place
     In any part of all the Empire else;
     So every Body, moving in her...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, […], →OCLC, Romans 11:32
9. to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)