conclude

Borrowed from Latin conclūdere (“to shut up, close, end”), present active infinitive of conclūdō.

• IPA^(key): /kən.ˈkluːd/

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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.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

     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.

2. (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
   • Francis Bacon

     I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.

3. (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.

   to conclude a bargain

   • Shakespeare

     if we conclude a peace

4. (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.

   From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.

   • Tillotson

     No man can conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.

5. (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
   • Addison

     But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.

6. To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar;generally in the passive.

   The defendant is concluded by his own plea.

   A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.

   • Sir M. Hale

     If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.

7. (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
   • Hooker

     The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.

8. (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
   • Bible, Romans xi. 32

     For God hath concluded all in unbelief.

   • Bible, Gal. iii. 22

     The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.

9. (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)

• (to end): begin, initiate, start

conclude

1. third-person singular present indicative of concludere

conclūde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of conclūdō