conclude

Verb

1. 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,...
2. 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...
3. To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
   • to conclude a bargain
   • if we conclude a peace - 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...
4. 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. 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. 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.
   • If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it. - a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light...
7. 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...
8. 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...
   • For God hath concluded all in unbelief. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 11:32:
   • The Scripture hath concluded all under sin. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Galatians 3:22:
9. to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)