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From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin conclūdere (“to shut up, close, end”).

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.
    • 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:
      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
  4. (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
    From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.
    • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to Societies:
      No man can certainly 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.
    • 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses:
      But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.
  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.
    • 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:
      If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
  7. (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
  8. (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine.
    • 1601, Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, act IV, scene VIII originally but scene VII in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume II, page 493:
      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.
  9. (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)

to end

to come to a final decision

develop a causal relation

conclude

  1. third-person singular present indicative of concludere

conclūde

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of conclūdō

conclude

  1. to conclude

Borrowed from Latin concludere or Italian concludere.

a conclude (third-person singular present **conclude, past participle conclus, third-person subjunctive concludă) 3rd conjugation

  1. to conclude