conclude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈkluːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: concludes
form: concluding
form: concluded
form: concluded
Etymology: From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin conclūdere (“to shut up, close, end”).
Senses: examples: text: The story concluded with a moral.
text: 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.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
glosses: To end; to come to an end.
examples: text: I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.
ref: 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 S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:
glosses: To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
examples: text: to conclude a bargain
text: if we conclude a peace
ref: 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, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
glosses: To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
examples: text: From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.
text: No man can certainly conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.
ref: a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to Societies:
glosses: To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
examples: text: But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.
ref: 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses:
glosses: To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
examples: text: The defendant is concluded by his own plea.
text: A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.
text: If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
qualifier: often passive voice
glosses: To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar.
examples: text: The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.
ref: 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, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To shut up; to enclose.
examples: text: 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 Sphear,
Contains Ten thousand times as much in him,
As any other, her choice Orb excludes.
ref: 1601, Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, act IV, scene VIII originally but scene VII in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume II, page 493:
text: For God hath concluded all in unbelief.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 11:32:
text: The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Galatians 3:22:
glosses: To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)
Derived terms: concludable
concluder
concludible
conclusible
misconclude
reconclude
unconcluded
Related terms: conclusion
conclusive
disclude
include
occlude
preclude